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It’s awards season here at Yahoo Finance!
Yahoo Finance has been awarding the coveted ‘Company of the Year’ award since 2014.
Our newsroom did a fantastic job covering the annual award through text, video, social media and infographics. In many cases we have profiled companies before they became household names.
For example, in 2014 we presented the award to what was then Under Armor (UA), a scrappy workout apparel company that was shaking up its industry. Last year the award went to weight loss drug and insulin supplier Novo Nordisk (NVO) for its life-changing work and share price performance.
We don’t make the decision on who wins lightly, and names are thoroughly discussed by our editorial leaders.
The winner must meet several criteria set by our experienced team of news and investment enthusiasts. These criteria range from stock price performance and financial performance to leadership effectiveness and a number of intangibles.
This year we thought: why not rev up this annual ritual and expand our prize franchise?
So we did that.
From Monday morning to Thursday we will announce a winner in the following categories:
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Company of the Year
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Return of the year
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Surprise of the year
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Product of the year
There will be a host of exclusive interviews and content shared via Yahoo Finance video (which you can stream on desktop, our app and all major streaming platforms) and our podcasts from dawn to dusk.
The fun starts live on the Opening Bid podcast on Mondays at 8:30 a.m. ET from the Nasdaq in Times Square. The signature leadership interviews air every morning at 6am ET.
I can tell you that there were a lot of big companies in the race to win the prizes, such as Nvidia (NVDA), Walmart (WMT), General Motors (GM), Palantir (PLTR), Caterpillar (CAT), Amazon (AMZN). ), Meta (META) and many others.
In all cases, these are companies that change the way you think about life, business and investing. And they have leaders who continue to push the boundaries of what is possible. Higher stock prices also help their cause – regardless of whether their CEOs check their ticker pages on Yahoo Finance.
“I am aware of it [of the stock price]. I try not to focus on that too much. It is the inputs that determine the outputs, and I spend my time on those inputs,” said one of the CEOs I interviewed for the award.
