Reading more, beyond the bottom line... Industry Conferences are rare public venues where analysts and companies make presentations, and sometimes use the opportunity to make major product announcements...
1. Go to the Company Site: Identify Upcoming Events and Read through Archived Events to learn what has been announced in the past, and what you might expect in future industry events. [link to do this below...]
2. Google Conference Search: Do a general search for your industry to see if you can extend your perspective on industry conferences, not found on your company's site. [Example search: "Semiconductor Conference"+Intel - link] Continued below...
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Following these four steps can help you anticipate stock price fluctuations around these event dates (and you might learn about rumored announcements that could be made around your stock or a competitor that may convince you to get into, or stay away from, a given stock)... Continued from above...
3. Stock Price Analysis Around These Key Dates: First, list these key dates that occur for these conference each year. Then analyze the effects that these conferences may or may not have had on your stock's price. You should also compare the stock prices of key in the same interactive chart on Yahoo! Finance. We've prepared this for you as an example (around the Goldman Sachs 2/10 & Morgan Stanley 3/10 conferences, with Intel & competitors here >...
4. Note all of these annual events for future tracking: Use your workbook to note these key industry events and follow your stock around these future conferences or other events.
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Upcoming Events: Key upcoming dates:
05/11/10 - Investor Meeting 2010
05/19/10 - Annual Stockholders' Meeting
07/13/10 - Q2 2010 Intel Corporation Earnings Conference Call
Past Events: for calendar tracking - anticipated approximate dates:
March:
03/01/10 - 2010 Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference
February:
02/23/10 - Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference
02/16/10 - Mobile World Congress Update
02/09/10 - Thomas Weisel Partners Technology & Telecom Conference
January:
01/07/10 - Consumers Electronic Show
December:
12/08/09 - Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference
12/02/09 - Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference
November:
11/20/09 - UBS Technology Food Chain Mini Conference (One-on-One)
August:
08/26/09 - Morgan Stanley Semiconductor & Semi-Cap Equipment Access Day
08/25/09 - Piper Jaffray Chicago Semiconductor Summit
July:
07/29/09 - Intel Technology Summit 2009
May:
05/27/09 - Cowen & Co. 37th Annual Technology Media & Telecom Conference
05/27/09 - Barclays Capital Worldwide Wireless & Wireline Conference
05/20/09 - J.P. Morgan Annual Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference
Checking for any stock price correlation around these dates:
While it is difficult to conclude that price changes occur around these dates, there is a noticeable jump right around November 1st, prior to the start of the bulk of the year's annual conferences, November through February. Our conclusion is that it is difficult, and not really definitive, to make real connections between price and event dates. [See these price changes over 1 year here... link]
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