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