Thursday, 3 January 2008

Why no Teamquest, Metron,PerfCap in the share listings?

Because they are all private companies!

http://www.metron.co.uk/home/about/index.html

http://www.teamquest.com/about/corporate-information/index.htm

http://www.perfcap.com/AboutUs.htm

This is a factor to be considered when negotiating. A public company be pressurize its salespeople to close deals before FY deadlines - a private company less so. In dealing with private companies is generally a trickier proposition for banks, since there is no shareholder pressure points to be used. Not that anyone would of course.

As a service to my readers, here is the FY end dates of the publically listed companies listed on this blog. All data comes from the Annual Reports, available from their respective urls.

BMC March 31st Q1
HP October 31st Q3
CA March 31 Q1
IBM December 31 Q4