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Bestcalls.com Announces the Bestcalls Financial Index; BestCalls Financial Index Rates the Conference Call Popularity of America's Top Financial Services Firms
BusinessWire, Tuesday, June 29, 1999 at 08:16
LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 1999--BestCalls.com,
the Internet's investor conference call directory, today announced the
BestCalls Financial Index(tm) (http://www.bestcalls.com/index), the
world's first survey to rate the conference call popularity of
U.S.-based financial services firms. According the survey, the top
twenty most requested conference calls in the financial services
sector include:
1. CMGI Inc. (NASDAQ:CMGI)
2. E*TRADE Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGRP)
3. Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C)
4. Charles Schwab Corp. (NYSE:SCH)(a)
5. Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:AMTD)
6. Knight/Trimark Group Inc. (NASDAQ:NITE)
7. Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC)
8. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MER)
9. Chase Manhattan Corp. (NYSE:CMB)
10. Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC)
11. Net.B@nk, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTBK)
12. American Express Company (NYSE:AXP)
13. First Union Corporation (NYSE:FTU)
14. Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM)
15. J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc. (NYSE:JPM)
16. American International Group, Inc (NYSE:AIG)
17. Bank One Corporation (NYSE:ONE)
18. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (NYSE:MWD)
19. National Discount Brokers (NYSE:NDB)
20. Conseco, Inc. (NYSE:CNC)
Note(a): Charles Schwab does not hold conference calls
"We created the BestCalls Financial Index to demonstrate the
demand for conference call attendance among individual investors,"
said Mark Coker, founder and president of BestCalls.com. "Compared
with the technology industry, the financial services industry has been
slow to open their conference calls to individual investors."
BestCalls Financial Index Showcases Top 20 Financial Services
Conference Calls
The BestCalls Financial Index provides an important measure of
which publicly traded financial services companies are on the radar
screens of individual investors. Approximately 93% of BestCalls.com
member are individual investors.
The Index identifies the twenty most requested conference calls
schedules for companies in the financial services industry, and is
based on a survey of over 30,000 BestCalls.com members. Popularity is
determined by the number of BestCalls members who have placed a
particular financial services company in their personal CallTracker.
CallTracker is BestCalls.com's free service that allows members to
receive automatic email notifications of the conference call schedules
they specify.
The BestCalls Financial Index will become a permanent feature on
the BestCalls.com web site, and will soon be joined by additional
exclusive BestCalls Indexes which examine other leading industry
sectors. Other BestCalls Indexes announced separately today include
the BestCalls Energy Index, the BestCalls Conglomerates Index, and the
BestCalls Healthcare Index. Each BestCalls Index is updated once every
twenty four hours. The BestCalls Index use industry sector
classifications from Marketguide (NASDAQ:MARG).
The release of today's BestCalls Sector Indexes follows the
successful launch of the BestCalls 50 Index in March, 1999. The
BestCalls 50 Index measures the overall top fifty most requested
conference call schedules out of a field of over 9,100 companies, and
has gained industry-wide recognition as the leading indicator of
conference call popularity. Portions of the Index were reproduced this
week in The Industry Standard, the Internet business newsweekly,
located at
thestandard.com.
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