Category: DKS
Virtual Meetings Shortchange Shareholders
“CEOs of publicly traded companies may tell shareholders that they miss seeing them in person, but they are taking advantage of the virtual meeting format to duck those shareholders’ tough questions.” I point this out in a new commentary published ...
Dick’s Sporting Goods Can’t Shoot Straight
Throughout the 2020 shareholder season, companies have used the virtual meeting format adopted for COVID-19 restrictions to avoid facing tough questions from conservative investors. In the traditional in-person meeting format, a CEO never knows what questions might come from the ...
“Woke” Companies Risk Going Broke
As the nation becomes more politically polarized, corporations are making the surprising choice to take sides. And, predictably, politics is having an impact on their bottom lines. In a Wall Street Journal report on this very troubling business model, reporters ...
Conservatives Must Become a “Squeaky Wheel” to Influence Corporate America
“Now is the time for action. Now is not the time for passivity.” That’s the advice Justin Danhof, Esq., the National Center’s general counsel and director of its Free Enterprise Project (FEP), has for conservatives when it comes to dealing ...
Anti-Gun Stance Yields More Bad News for Dick’s Sporting Goods
It was another bad earnings report from Dick’s Sporting Goods, coming almost six months after the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) first warned CEO Ed Stack that the retailer had made a poor decision by restricting all interested customers from ...
Free Enterprise Project Challenges Anti-Second Amendment Corporations
Third of a three-part series Following the Parkland shooting, the corporate backlash against the NRA and the Second Amendment was quick and decisive. At the Free Enterprise Project, we took the backlash as a call for action. We immediately reallocated ...
Anti-Gun Stance Blows Away Dick’s Profits
Dick’s Sporting Goods, infamous for joining the anti-gun mob after the Parkland school shootings earlier this year, saw its stock tumble upon news of an anemic second quarter earnings report. Executives can’t say they weren’t warned. The National Center’s Free Enterprise ...
Dick’s Sporting Goods Doubles-Down on Reduced Gun Sales
CEO Admits Alienating Customers, Says It's "Fine" Shareholder No Longer Shops There Pittsburgh, PA / Washington, DC - Dick's Sporting Goods reaffirmed its decision to end certain firearms-related sales during today's annual meeting of its shareholders. A shareholder activist challenged corporate ...