How does one determine that a company has a good management team, preferrably one that has a stake in the comp

Question

any and that the company is spread out globally?

Answer 1

Typically, with a good management team, you'll see the stock increase.

As for a stake in the company, you can see insider trading with SEC reports and incentive given along these lines typically in their annual reports.

Some websites track insider trading so you can see the holdings pretty easily across time. I occasionally look at this, but then again, I'm more of a technical trader, than a fundamentalist.

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

The above answers are great when you are looking at numbers, but I have a slightly different valuation of "A Good Management Team".

A good management team will create an environment for employees to be creative and enhance their abilities successfully; they help their employees grow. A good barometer for measuring these attributes would be to examine available benefits, types of benefits, employee use and participation in benefits, and assessing the intangible value these benefits generate both for employees and for the company.

Another way is to examine the frequency and form of how a management team recognizes the value and contributions of staff.

Examples:

The management of a textile firm in Massachusetts which paid all their employees full pay and benefits while they rebuilt their production facility after a fire...

A multi-tier bonus sytem that ensures the top management does NOT get disproportionately higher bonuses than base employees...

A management team that recognizes the importance of community to their employees and is willing to, in some fashion, support an employees involvement in the places where they live...

Answer 3

Read about the executive officers background and performance e.g CEO, CFO,COO. Most large corp have this info about their executive team in the websites esp. publicly traded companies. Public companies are required by law to make this info available to investors. Info about the stakes of the company is always listed in their websites.

Answer 4

In addition to what Muga wrote, check out the SEC filings of companies on the SEC website. Usually, you can find out how shares are being disbursed, who is in charge of what aspects of companies, etc. All good stuff to know when investing in a company.