How does a company protect against activist shareholders?
This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative
A video of the webinar can be viewed here: https://www.proformative.com/resources/webinar-video-analytics-mvp-your-investor-relations-team
The best protection combines strong financial performance and a clearly articulated strategy to pursue future business prospects. The activities discussed in the webinar, Analytics: The MVP on your IR Team, and the paper I published, Applying Analytics to Investor Relations; will help companies be less vulnerable. Both are available on Proformative. Developing an IR plan with measurable objectives and monitoring your progress include: clearly articulating the company’s investment characteristics and prospects for growth; analyzing the shareholder mix and regularly monitoring changes in shareholder ownership, engaging with shareholders on a regular and consistent basis; creating sound, comprehensive, timely communications; establishing feedback mechanisms and monitoring shareholder perceptions; and understanding and regularly monitoring the trading activity of your stock will help protect the company. More complete information was presented in the webinar and paper.
