Trade idea

bookish · May 22, 2018

This is to long term for me but if someone else wants to research it...

It would be interesting to compare a ten year average of price movement of companies after they get a female ceo, with a ten year average of indices over the same periods.

pushpop · May 22, 2018

bookish said:
This is to long term for me but if someone else wants to research it...

It would be interesting to compare a ten year average of price movement of companies after they get a female ceo, with a ten year average of indices over the same periods.

What's your hypothesis?

DaveV · May 22, 2018

bookish said:
It would be interesting to compare a ten year average of price movement of companies after they get a female ceo, with a ten year average of indices over the same periods.

Before you invest in this theory, you should listen to the Freakonomics podcast on female CEOs. It appears that most of the time when a Fortune 500 company hires a female CEO, it's because the company is really screwed up, so the company figures they have nothing to lose (GM, Yahoo, etc.)

OptionsOptionsOptions · May 22, 2018

bookish said:
This is to long term for me but if someone else wants to research it...

It would be interesting to compare a ten year average of price movement of companies after they get a female ceo, with a ten year average of indices over the same periods.

Wouldn't be enough data to get useful results.

OptionsOptionsOptions · May 22, 2018

Yahoo female CEO during a board meeting.

Troy Bombardia · May 24, 2018

I don't think it makes much of a difference. To assume that men or women are inherently better is just biased. Both can do the job.

bookish · May 24, 2018

Troy Bombardia said:
I don't think it makes much of a difference. To assume that men or women are inherently better is just biased. Both can do the job.

Reality disagrees with you.

11409 · May 26, 2018

bookish said:
This is to long term for me but if someone else wants to research it...

It would be interesting to compare a ten year average of price movement of companies after they get a female ceo, with a ten year average of indices over the same periods.

posh, yu need to immediately quit "breast-feeding" wid da fe's and start capturing NOAA's U.S. cloud cover on every market-down day to start ur quant bright-eye.

(Just kidding; the more the data inputined, the better!)

tomorton · May 26, 2018

What's important to know as a shareholder or prospective shareholder, when the firms appoints a new CEO, is what is their specialism, not what is their gender.

misterkel · May 26, 2018

Troy Bombardia said:
I don't think it makes much of a difference. To assume that men or women are inherently better is just biased. Both can do the job.

Awesome! I can have babies, then!