{"id":59278,"date":"2017-08-03T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59278"},"modified":"2017-08-03T08:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:30:17","slug":"index-rules-and-analyst-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/index-rules-and-analyst-fatigue.html","title":{"rendered":"Index Rules and Analyst Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) In recent years, founders of big tech companies have realized that they can take their companies public while still maintaining control in perpetuity, by setting up dual- or even triple-class stock structures and issuing low- or even nonvoting stock to the public. A lot of people have worried about this, but now they can stop worrying: That trend is over. I mean, Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc. and Snap Inc. have already done it, but don&#8217;t expect too many more, because S&#038;P Dow Jones Indices has announced that the S&#038;P 500 and some of its other big indexes &#8220;will no longer add companies with multiple share class structures.&#8221; Existing multiple-class companies (like Alphabet and Facebook &#8212; but not Snap, which never made it into the S&#038;P 500) will stay. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-08-01\/index-rules-and-analyst-fatigue\">To read this article: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) In recent years, founders of big tech companies have realized that they can take their companies public while still maintaining control in perpetuity, by setting up dual- or even triple-class stock structures and issuing low- or even nonvoting stock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59279,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59278\/revisions\/59279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}