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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: Companies With The Worst Press Coverage (6/16)
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Homeowners get clobbered in the press as the housing depression worsens.
Hackers hit ADP servers and worry grows about safety of payroll data.
Market revolt about Target earnings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Automatic Data Processing | ADP | 27.893 | +167 | Hackers hit its servers |
| 9 | Comerica | CMA | 27.12 | +82 | New capital ratios could hurt earnings |
| 15 | Morgan Stanley | MS | 25.317 | +334 | Worries about position in Greek debt? |
| 28 | Oracle | ORCL | 21.623 | +197 | Sued by HP about an “unfair” use of software |
| 33 | Hewlett-Packard | HPQ | 20.7 | +580 | Sues Oracle over software use |
| 37 | Target | TGT | 19.498 | +329 | Earnings were nothing special |
| 39 | Gap | GPS | 18.724 | +506 | Skepticism about move into Europe |
| 41 | Lennar | LEN | 18.22 | +150 | Home builders say market is more deader than before |
| 44 | Toll Brothers | TOL | 18.08 | +234 | Ditto |
| 45 | Smithfield Foods | SFD | 18.07 | +396 | Nice earnings but high capex |
Data and ranking provided by the Flame Index.
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