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Leading our relationship with financial analysts and equity investors. Ensure our strategy is understood. Help unlock the future value of the stock.
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Equity research analysts ('sell side'). Equity institutional investors (e.g. pension funds, hedge funds)
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Research company and build out financial models. Understand our performance and value the stock. Issue 'buy/hold/sell' recommendations and future price targets. Help us get in front of investors and provide information to them to make decision to invest.
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Whom is Ari and CFO talking to a lot? start learning
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They are talking to institutional investors.
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How many investors are IR talking to in a quarter? start learning
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How often do we have Investors days? start learning
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Apart from speaking to investors and having investors days, how else do we engage with investors? (2) start learning
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Quarterly earnings calls, Conferences
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Who is usually sponsoring conferences? start learning
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Short term (intrical?) and those that will buy for more than 1-2 years
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What short term investors are asking about? start learning
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They want to find out everything about the organization and deep dive. We present R&D technology abd
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What investors generally ask about start learning
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Major business areas, offerings, competitors, innovations. Financial performance, cash flow, capital deployment to drive future growth.
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News in the market that can impact our company. Follow ups from earnings.
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What metrics are the more important start learning
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Revenue, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted diluted EPS. Cash flow - h
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When it comes to cash flow. What do they ask about? start learning
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High conversion of net income/EBITDA to free cash flow.
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What conversion of net income/EBITDA to free cash flow mean start learning
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It indicate high quality of earnings
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Internal investments Capex, M&N, Share repurchase, Dividend and debt tie down
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How is IQVIA returning value to shareholders? start learning
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