Investors look for useful information, and as a guideline anything that makes your IR website information easier to use is a good idea. Most investors are not content just seeing your data, they want to mold it, crunch the numbers, plug them into their models. When you give financial figures, think about how they can be used for the myriad ratios and formulas that they use to reach their decisions.

The traditional way for investors to get these figures is either by subscribing to a third party service or by exporting the figures manually from your annual report or IR website.

Multinational personal products manufacturer Colgate-Palmolive makes the process easier by offering the raw numbers in Excel format on their annual reports section. This simple solution means that the data is in a format that should be comfortable for all investors and one that is very easy to play around with or export to whatever software or service the investor prefers. Notice also how the files come complete with footnotes, giving users the context they need to understand the raw data.

Visit Colgate-Palmolive’s annual report page

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