1934 Act Public Company Website Disclosure (September 8th, 2013 | Version 2.0)
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BACKGROUND DISCUSSION
First, there are two different types of publicly traded companies – those that are regulated by the
U.S. Securities Act of 19331 (“1933 Act”), which are not required to disclose financial activities
through the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“S.E.C.”) prescribed methods, and those
that are regulated by the U.S. Securities Act of 1934 (“1934 Act”), which requires regulated
companies to periodically report information through prescribed forms.
We believe that the disclosure that we refer to within this document is equally important for each
type of publicly traded company, but only 1934 Act companies will have SEC mandated periodic
financial reports, i.e. 10K, 10Q, 8K, Form 3, Form 4, etc.
In 2000, the SEC adopted Regulation FD to address the selective disclosure of information by
publicly traded companies and other issuers. Regulation FD provides that when an issuer
discloses material nonpublic information to certain individuals or entities—generally, securities
market professionals, such as stock analysts, or holders of the issuer's securities who may well
trade on the basis of the information—the issuer must make public disclosure of that information.
In this way, the new rule aims to promote the full and fair disclosure.
INVESTOR WEB PAGE
There are slight nuances between 1933 Act public companies and 1934 Act public company (requiring SEC
filings and disclosure). Here is an example of BenchMark Energy Corporation’s investor web page on
September 6th, 2013:
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The complete act is available at http://www.sec.gov/about/laws/sa33.pdf.
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As you can see, we haven’t used any RSS feeds at all, just hard coded information. This is simple and
doesn’t require a fee. OTCMarkets.com does provide Level II quotes as part of its package for Pink Sheets
current information companies. See their website for more information; also, this requires their fee,
which currently is $5,200 per year.
MENU ITEMS
There are no set items that are required, except a list of the SEC filings containing all of the SEC disclosure
filings that the company has made. The easiest thing to do, rather than embed those items, is to reference
another website (in this case, the SEC.gov website) so that the other site is liable for any misstatements
of fact. Due to linking to other sites, we normally add this disclaimer:
Disclaimer for Non-affiliated Websites
PUBLIC COMPANY NAME (SYMBOL, hereafter referred to as “XXXX”) provides a number of links
(within the menu structure) that are not affiliated with PUBLIC COMPANY NAME, nor do we
endorse these websites or the content. PUBLIC COMPANY NAME and its officers do not post
comments nor reply to posts on investor message boards, nor do we sponsor or promote a specific
message board over another. This lists Internet websites that provide community for our
shareholders / investors.
Here is what our menu structure would normally look like:
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Investors Page
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SEC Filings
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browseedgar?company=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX&owner=exclude&action=getcompany where
‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXX’ is the proper name of the company. Make sure that it goes to the
correct company disclosure webpage on the SEC’s site.
Management & Board
This should be a webpage on your website. If not, just include the management and
board on the investor webpage.
Board Committees
This should be a webpage on your website. If not, just include the management and
board on the investor webpage.
Ethics Statements
This should be a webpage on your website. If not, just include the management and
board on the investor webpage.
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Quotes
You can create a single webpage on your website that lists out a number of locations for
quotes, but I normally just include links – less risk that something goes wrong with the
RSS embedding.
 CNBC
http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/XXXX
 Google Finance
https://www.google.com/finance?q=XXXX
 Market Watch
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/XXXX
 Morningstar
http://quotes.morningstar.com/stock/XXXX/s?t=XXXX
 MSN Money
http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/stock-price?Symbol=XXXX
 NASDAQ
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/XXXX
 OTC Markets
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/XXXX/quote
 Yahoo! Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=XXXX&ql=1
Charts
 Big Charts
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/interchart/interchart.asp?symb=XXXX&instt
ype=Stock&time=8&freq=1
 YCharts
http://ycharts.com/companies/XXXX
Message Boards
 Board Central
http://boardcentral.com/boards/XXXX
 Investors’ Hub
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=________2
 Yahoo! Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com/mb/XXXX/
Investor Tools
 Profile on OTC Markets
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/XXXX/company-info
 Stock Newsletters
http://stockreads.com/Stock-Newsletters-By-Symbol.aspx?stock=XXXX
 OTC Short Report
http://otcshortreport.com/index.php?index=XXXX
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You must look up this message board number yourself, if it exists. If it doesn’t exist, you will need to request a
board be created by the website administrator.
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