The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: Companies With The Worst Press (6/9)

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Published: June 9, 2011 10:29 am

Nokia was badly hurt by poor earnings and rumors of a takeovers. CVS suffered from a report by Fox Business the organized crime has hurt retail margins. EMC division RSA suffers major hack data breach.

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
10	FedEx	FDX	22.261	+47	Hikes dividend
22	Nokia	NOK	19.408	+716	On the ropes. Buyout rumors
25	CVS Caremark	CVS	19.128	+704	Fox Business points to organized crime problems
28	Aetna	AET	18.489	+307	Forecasts soft quarterly numbers
35	Manpower	MAN	17.527	+59	Struggles in China market
39	Universal Health Services	UHS	17.256	+53	Reaction to presentation at Goldman analyst conference
42	Sara Lee	SLE	17.081	+104	Nestle launches competing products
46	EMC	EMC	16.704	+104	RSA division has huge data breach
48	Symantec	SYMC	16.232	+357	Hackers undermine confidence in online securities firms
50	Amgen	AMGN	16.171	+363	Teva will launch competing product

Data and ranking provided by the Flame Index.

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