The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: The Companies With The Most Bad Press (7/19)

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Earnings dominated the press coverage of today’s shares. Novartis and Harley-Davidson released numbers

Icahn Enterprise was thumped after it made a bid for Clorox, which was rejected. Boeing was hit because large customer American may buy jets from rival Airbus.

Microsoft sold off, probably because of news that smartphone partner is in more trouble

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
11 Alcatel Lucent ALU 30.207 +209  Former employee charged with graft in Malaysia
23 Microsoft MSFT 23.309 +176  Wireless partner Nokia in more trouble
24 Icahn Enterprises IEP 23.063 +543  Market hates bid for Clorox
25 Novartis NVS 22.934 +530  Earnings up, but generics loom
26 Boeing BA 22.209 +542  May lose huge American Air deal.
32 PNC Financial Services Group PNC 20.294 +482  In the middle of ugly robo-signing deal
33 Stanley Black & Decker SWK 20.061 +466  Buys Sweden’s Niscayah Group
36 Entergy ETR 19.944 +538  Fight over its Vermont Yankee nuclear plant may cause shutdown
39 Harley-Davidson HOG 19.879 +632  Earnings remarkably strong
45 Tiffany & Co TIF 19.219 +610  Oppenheimer raises price target to $100 from $80

Data and ranking provided by the Flame Index.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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