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• Price Competition is the Principal Stock Value Destroyer (Part 1) - Editor, 12 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Even rapid business growth has its downsides. Small stock investors are the most affected stakeholders of this aspect of financial planning, because employees, suppliers, bankers, regulators, and private equity can abandon ship well in time. Plateaus of growth and cyclical downturns are ubiquitous to business. Many elements of cost mount inexorably out of management control, but stock investors may feel nothing until it is too late! It is a convention to present voluntary retirement schemes, reductions in head-count, and consolidation moves in cost-saving light, but why allow such structures to develop in the first place? It is glamorous at some junctures to expand market share at the cost of gross operating margins, but they are almost never in the interests of loyal stock investors.

• Price Competition is the Principal Stock Value Destroyer (Part 2) - Editor, 12 February 2008 - No Comments yet
Price Competition is the Principal Stock Value Destroyer (Part 1)

EVA and Risk Perspectives of Operational Pricing Effects on Stocks

A professional manager who is committed to supporting a positive stock price trend has to consider economic value addition (EVA) and the significant risks of a business, when he or she takes diligent decisions regarding pricing decisions for products and services. Outcomes of such thinking may be entirely different from ones which are short-term or poorly-informed about the lasting impacts of direct and indirect price reductions. The telecommunications sector in emerging countries serves as an illustrative example of how stock investors can be affected by pricing decisions at the tactical level.

• Iroquois Confederacy Fundamentals for National Financial Planning (Part 1) - Editor, 10 February 2008 - No Comments yet

The Declaration of Independence could not have matched the applause that a 2008 State of the Union address or a campaign speech evokes! Is this a pointer to how the United States has evolved over the past two hundred years? Independent observation can be confusing because the lines between a healthy and a sick economy are so blurred! This article brainstorms on alternative financial planning options, using the distant past to chart course for an equally nebulous future. This piece follows from one we have published earlier entitled “Alternative Financial Planning to Revive a Flagging National Economy”.

• Iroquois Confederacy Fundamentals for National Financial Planning (Part 2) - Editor, 10 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Iroquois Confederacy Fundamentals for National Financial Planning (Part 1)

US corporations, citizens of the country, and the entire political establishment, with its subservient administration, all have common strategic pointers towards forging future-oriented links with the BRIC nations. The Iroquois perspective of forging ties with our descendents in view, gives entirely new hues to the Brazil, Russia, India, and China of this Millennium.

• What Top Stocks Foretell (Part 1) - Editor, 3 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Stock value may be said to represent customer appreciation, if margin efficiencies are assumed to be equal in free enterprise. A company that outperforms nearly identical competitors reflects the popular choices of a majority. The value of Sears stocks are even higher than the nominal stock value that it has enjoyed for decades: the brand name is an icon of the American way of life. It has an indelible place in the modern history of the United States. The company has enabled countless baby boomers to dress well for less, and has made it possible to shop from the leisure of our own home, and in privacy.

• What Top Stocks Foretell (Part 2) - Editor, 3 February 2008 - No Comments yet

What Top Stocks Foretell (Part 1)

Marketing Mix Appraisal for Top Stock Picks

Stock analysis has become a financial matter, though marketing is at least as important in appraising business and management. The Sears infrastructure is not meaningful for today’s consumers unless stores drastically change ambience and server profiles. A catalog must have lower value for consumers with broad-band Internet connections than it did for the pioneering families of early settlers. Another aspect is that consumers in emerging countries such as China and India may value traditional product lines and services of Sears more than its traditional western segments. Is it time for the company to return to the drawing board?

• What the Administration Can Teach Business about Stock Value (Part 1) - Editor, 2 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Bureaucrats are often profiled as individuals who are less competent and effective in management terms than executives in corporations that work for profits. The reality is that business management techniques can work regardless of organizations structure and nature. Similarly, just as all managers in a company do not have the same levels of competence, so an administration can also have individual members who work effectively for positive changes. The Homeland Security Department and the Office of Management and Budget have recently introduced major cost-saving measures that all corporations should try and emulate.

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