James F. Reda & Associates, LLC conducted this study of proxy statement disclosures for selected companies from the Standard & Poor's large-cap stock indexes ("S&P large-cap companies") for 2006 and 2007 (as reported in 2007 and 2008). The purpose of this study is to provide a resource of...

Based on our recent analysis, we discovered two very interesting points. First, the companies that used the same performance measures in each of the past five years outperformed others that changed measures. Second, the best performance measure is Earnings per Share (“EPS”), followed by...