The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: Companies With The Most Negative Press (6/22)

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Published: June 22, 2011 10:48 am

Gannett will layoff 700 people which caused a torrent of negative press coverage

Carnival and GM were both victims of concern about oil price changes. 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
2	Gannett	GCI	34.609	+153	Will layoff 700 people
21	News Corp.	NWSA	20.251	+120	Hulu, partially owned by NWS for sale
30	Marshall & Ilsley Corp.	MI	19.115	+304	Deal for Bank of Montreal to buy MI closes
32	Dollar Tree	DLTR	18.96	+83	Concerns about retail sales?
36	Exxon Mobil	XOM	18.293	+93	Wild ride of oil prices
39	Carnival Corp.	CCL	17.842	+656	Fuel costs for ships hurt margins
42	Lockheed Martin	LMT	17.094	+538	Gets money for F-35, but otherwise no Paris Air Show news
45	Burlington Northern Santa Fe	BNI	16.909	+158	How did this get here? Buffett bought it a year ago
46	Staples	SPLS	16.487	+636	Canadian operation has data privacy trouble
49	General Motors	GM	16.656	+188	High gas price will hurt holiday travel

Data and ranking provided by the Flame Index.

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