Sign In
SHARE
Email Confirmation
Jun 26 2008
1:19PM
EDT
Yahoo's Loser Board
Russ Mitchell is not surprised. One way to compare the quality of Yahoo's board of directors to Microsoft's: look at the outside directors and the other public boards they sit on and see how they've performed. Take each company and compare its stock charts against the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq indexes, whichever is most relevant. Such analysis can be used only as a piece of evidence in determining a board member's quality; it hardly tells the whole story. But interesting evidence it is.
On the list below, a company that soundly beat the index over the past 12 months is a winner. A company that seriously lagged the index is a loser. A company that comes close to matching the index is neutral.
The tally:
Microsoft: Six winners, two losers.
Yahoo: Seven losers, two winners, one neutral.
MICROSOFT
James Cash
The Chubb Corp. WINNER
Wal-Mart WINNER
Phase Forward WINNER
Dina Dublon
Accenture LOSER
Pepsico WINNER
Raymond Gilmartin
General Mills WINNER
Charles Noski
Air Products and Chemicals WINNER
Helmut Penke
UBS LOSER
YAHOO
Ron Bostock
Northwest Airlines LOSER
Gary Wilson
Northwest Airlines LOSER
CB Richard Ellis Group LOSER
Ron Burkle
Occidental Petroleum WINNER
KB Home LOSER
Eric Hippeau
Starwood Hotels LOSER
Maggie Wilderotter
Citizen Communications LOSER
Xerox LOSER
Robert Kotich
Activision WINNER
Arthur Kern
Clear Channel NEUTRAL
The S&P over the past twelve months is down about 14%; the Nasdaq, about 7%.
Average out the Microsoft board's percentage point gains and losses, and they're down 4%; if you take out the one big loser, UBS, which was down 63%, the Microsoft average return is a positive 5.8%
Average out the Yahoo board's percentage point gain's and losses, and it's down 22.5%; if you take out the one big winner Activision, up about 90%, the average is a loss of 36%.
Loading...
Thank you for registering as a Portfolio.com Insider. Your comment has been added.
Create Your Public Profile
Recent Blog Posts
- First Bytes: SEC Eyes Tweets, Waiting on a Verizon iPhone
- Apr 27 2009 9:10AM EDT
- Last Bytes: A New MySpaceFace, Technological Necessities
- Apr 24 2009 5:22PM EDT
- What the One Billionth Downloader Won
- Apr 24 2009 2:37PM EDT
- The End of Innocence at Apple
- Apr 24 2009 11:25AM EDT
- First Bytes: Social Videos, 1 Billion Apps, Mt. Everest Calls
- Apr 24 2009 10:23AM EDT
- Last Bytes: Microsoft and Amazon, Two Tales of the Economy
- Apr 23 2009 5:40PM EDT
- Dell's Plastic Surgery
- Apr 23 2009 3:12PM EDT
- Why High Tech Needs the Wall Street Quants
- Apr 23 2009 11:20AM EDT
- First Bytes: New Blood at MySpace, Steve Jobs Testimony
- Apr 23 2009 9:05AM EDT
- Last Bytes: Apple Profit Soars; eBay Profit Falls
- Apr 22 2009 5:04PM EDT
- Earth Day Special: Gadgets to Green Your Lifestyle
- Apr 22 2009 1:52PM EDT
- First Bytes: Cyberspies and Belgian Bots
- Apr 22 2009 9:55AM EDT
- Last Bytes: Is Texting Passé? Not Yet.
- Apr 21 2009 5:52PM EDT
- Happy 20th Birthday, Game Boy
- Apr 21 2009 4:11PM EDT
- Gaming Geeks (and Curt Schilling) Unite!
- Apr 21 2009 12:43PM EDT
Archive
Jul
2009
Categories
Links
- Kevin Maney's site
- TechCrunch
- GigaOM
- Engadget
- USA TODAY Tech
- Romenesko
- BuzzTracker Tech
- Roger McGuinn's Folk Den
- Maney's band on MySpace
- Spiedies, mmmm
- Somewhat Frank's tech conference list
- Marc Andreessen
- Mark Cuban's blog
- Tom Foremski
- Fred Wilson
- Pandora
- SciTech Daily
- Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
- Steven Johnson
- The Long Tail
- paidContent
- John Battelle's SearchBlog
