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It’s awards season here at Yahoo Finance!
Yahoo Finance has been rolling out its coveted Company of the Year award since 2014.
Our newsroom has done an incredible job reporting on the annual award in text, video, social media and infographics. In many cases, we have profiled companies before they became household names.
In 2014, for example, we gave the award to what was then a sportswear company called Under Armor (UA), which was revolutionizing its industry. Last year, the award went to insulin and weight-loss drug provider Novo Nordisk (NVO) for its life-changing work and share price performance.
We don’t make the decision of who wins lightly, and our editorial leaders vet the names thoroughly.
The winner must meet several criteria set by our veteran team of news and investment lovers. These criteria range from stock price performance and financial performance to leadership effectiveness and a couple of intangibles.
This year, we thought, why not add some fuel to this annual ritual and expand our awards franchise?
So we have done just that.
Starting Monday morning and continuing through Thursday, we will reveal a winner in the following categories:
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Company of the year
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comeback of the year
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Surprise of the year
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Product of the year
There will be plenty of exclusive interviews and content shared through Yahoo Finance videos (which you can stream on your desktop, our app, and all major streaming platforms) and our dawn-to-dusk podcasts.
The fun begins live on the Opening Bid podcast at 8:30 a.m. ET Monday from the Nasdaq in Times Square. Featured leadership interviews will be posted online at 6 a.m. ET each morning.
I can tell you that there were a lot of big companies competing to secure the awards, 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 are changing the way we think about living, doing business and investing. And they have leaders who continue to push the boundaries of what is possible. Higher stock prices also help their cases, regardless of whether their CEOs are looking at their pages on Yahoo Finance.
“I am aware [of the stock price]. I try not to focus too much on that. It’s the inputs that drive results, and I spend my time on those inputs,” one of the CEOs I interviewed for the award told me.