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GMI Ratings Governance Issue | Oracle Corp.

Oracle Corp. dazzled the market on Tuesday with its earnings and allayed fears about an executive leaving. Nonetheless, those who take the software company’s financial statements at face value continue to expose themselves to the risk of less pleasant surprises. Rumors swirled Monday that Keith Block, Oracle’s executive vice president of North America sales and [...]

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Son of Mega Grant

By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate This blog first appeared on Forbes.com today. Back in 2009 I noticed a trend among companies towards awarding really large numbers of stock options and I wrote a report on it for GMI Ratings called Return of the Mega Grant. For most of the decade, the [...]

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