Tantallon,
With all due respect, it is ridiculous to try to make this link with respect to a stock price and communications. You have obviously taken a shot at LBE with your comment, but there is no link between good communications and stock price, and it is certainly not an inverse relationship.
I think ISM shareholders deserve better communications from the company, frankly. I have read comments from a few shareholders who say they have never received a reoly form IR. I have never encountered that in over 25 years of investing.
Incidentally, I don't read anything negative into the fact that the company is not forthcoming with information. Neither do I subscribe to a notion that they have something to hide. I just feel that ISM, from all I have heard from its shareholders who post on this board, should do a better job of communicating. Shareholders deserve better.
And if they do improve their communications, it will not negatively affect their stock price.
Cheers,
Bluenoser