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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index (May 17) Companies With The Most Negative Press
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NYSE (NYSE: NYX) was thrashed as Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) and ICE pulled their buyout offer due to regulatory concerns.
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) was savaged by the press as information from its CEO about its weak quarterly numbers and future prospects were leaked to the press.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NYSE Euronext | NYX | 48.663 | +99 | Nasdaq pulls plan to buy. |
| 2 | GOOG | 31.344 | +1 | Concerns about antitrust probes | |
| 3 | Walt Disney | DIS | 28.983 | +3 | Rough earnings |
| 4 | Community Health Systems | CYH | 27.77 | +10 | Buyout of Tenet dies |
| 5 | Amazon.com | AMZN | 26.884 | +23 | May pull out of more states because of taxes |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard | HPQ | 26.296 | +773 | Awful earnings, preceded by leak of CEO doc |
| 7 | Cisco Systems | CSCO | 26.212 | -6 | Still worried about future restructuring |
| 8 | Toyota Motor Corporation | TM | 26.212 | +9 | Japan quake cuts production |
| 9 | Eli Lilly | LLY | 25.092 | +72 | Amylin sues over drug JV |
| 10 | Warner Music Group | WMG | 24.812 | -8 | Will be sold off, but at low prices |
| 1 | NYSE Euronext | NYX | 48.663 | +99 | Nasdaq kills buyout |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard | HPQ | 26.296 | +773 | Leaked memo kills shares |
| 11 | BorgWarner | BWA | 24.467 | +391 | Gets almost nothing from Honeywell patent settlement |
| 21 | Stryker | SYK | 19.764 | +620 | Moody’s savages over Orthovita buyout |
| 22 | iRobot | IRBT | 19.465 | +210 | Rough reaction to analyst day |
Data and ranking provided by the Flame Index.
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