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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: The Companies With The Most Bad Press (7/19)
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Earnings dominated the press coverage of today’s shares. Novartis and Harley-Davidson released numbers
Icahn Enterprise was thumped after it made a bid for Clorox, which was rejected. Boeing was hit because large customer American may buy jets from rival Airbus.
Microsoft sold off, probably because of news that smartphone partner is in more trouble
The Flame Index started as a research tool in 2008 at the NY Innovation Design Lab (nyidlab). It was used as a general metric to evaluate companies and their risk in the media. Publicly traded Fortune 500 companies are used as a measure to calculate an overall market of negative news and the companies are ranked within that market
| Rank | Company | Ticker | Score | Change in Rank | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Alcatel Lucent | ALU | 30.207 | +209 | Former employee charged with graft in Malaysia |
| 23 | Microsoft | MSFT | 23.309 | +176 | Wireless partner Nokia in more trouble |
| 24 | Icahn Enterprises | IEP | 23.063 | +543 | Market hates bid for Clorox |
| 25 | Novartis | NVS | 22.934 | +530 | Earnings up, but generics loom |
| 26 | Boeing | BA | 22.209 | +542 | May lose huge American Air deal. |
| 32 | PNC Financial Services Group | PNC | 20.294 | +482 | In the middle of ugly robo-signing deal |
| 33 | Stanley Black & Decker | SWK | 20.061 | +466 | Buys Sweden’s Niscayah Group |
| 36 | Entergy | ETR | 19.944 | +538 | Fight over its Vermont Yankee nuclear plant may cause shutdown |
| 39 | Harley-Davidson | HOG | 19.879 | +632 | Earnings remarkably strong |
| 45 | Tiffany & Co | TIF | 19.219 | +610 | Oppenheimer raises price target to $100 from $80 |
Data and ranking provided by the Flame Index.
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