Who did we survey?
The IR Magazine Global Roadshow Report 2019 is our 10th annual research report into corporate roadshow activity. Findings are taken from the latest round of IR Magazine’s Global IR Survey, carried out in Q3 2019. A total of 456 IR practitioners replied to the survey questions relevant to this report.
Respondents were asked about their experiences with roadshows over the preceding 12 months, in terms of both their practices and their preferences. The report investigates the frequency and location of roadshow activity and presents findings on who IROs go on the road with, both from their own management team and the brokers they use.
This report further looks at how many brokers companies typically used for roadshows in the past year and how often companies are prepared to go on the road with certain brokers.
It also examines preferred roadshow destinations and the reasons for their popularity. Other sections in this year’s report include how roadshow targets are chosen and which brokers have hosted the most impressive roadshows in the past year.
The first figures in this report are for how many respondents have been on roadshows in the past year. Any subsequent findings in this report are based on the responses from roadshow participants only and do not include data from respondents that do not go on the road.
Most of the findings in this report have been split by geographical region and company market capitalization. For the purposes of this study the key regions examined are North America, Europe and Asia, while the categories for market cap are defined in US dollars as follows:
Small cap = <$1 bn Mid-cap = $1 bn-$5 bn Large cap = $5 bn-$30 bn Mega-cap = >$30 bn