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The Hill
7 hours ago
- Business
- The Hill
Female CEOs are more qualified than male CEOs, says new report
Although we've recently seen some positive movements when it comes to women in leadership roles, a new report reveals that women often need to be more qualified than men to be considered for CEO positions. Barriers and Breakthroughs: A Data-Driven Look at Women CEOs at America's Largest Corporations, conducted by Women's Power Gap, analyzed the career paths of all current S&P 500 CEOs, and its results challenge the misconception that women reach CEO roles through lowered standards or diversity quotas. In fact, it found that women CEOs are 32 percent more likely than men to have served as company president before becoming CEO, reflecting an additional step in leadership experience. In contrast, men were more likely to advance from division head positions (29 percent v 23 percent) or COO (17 percent v 8 percent) than women. Additionally, women are more likely to have served as chief financial officer (CFO) prior to becoming CEO. Some 10 percent of female CEOs held this role compared to 6 percent of male CEOs, indicating strong financial expertise among women leaders. Yet, despite all this experience women remain underrepresented at CEO level. Though in 2024, women comprised 17 percent of newly-appointed CEOs (11 of 64), only 48 women led S&P 500 companies (10 percent), up from just nine per cent in 2000. Frustratingly, the report identifies a phenomenon that affects many women, which sees them stuck on the second-to-last rung of the ladder, not quite reaching the top. Specifically, among S&P 100 companies, women occupy 24 percent of the three main launch positions (COO, president, and head of division/regional market), yet only 8 percent of CEO positions. Whereas men hold 76 percent of launch positions, and 92 percent of CEO roles. The report also highlights the uneven distribution of women across particular executive roles. Some 76 percent of CHRO roles are performed by women, while 56 percent of Chief Marketing Offers are also roles are less frequently linked to the CEO track; men are three times more likely to take profit-linked roles that lead to CEO opportunities. No women founders serve as CEOs of S&P 500 companies, compared to 29 men who are founders and CEOs, indicating a gap in entrepreneurial leadership. Women of color face even greater underrepresentation. At the time of the report, there were no Black or Hispanic women CEOs in the S&P 500, and only six Asian women CEOs, while men of color held a higher share of CEO roles. Things aren't a whole lot better for non-white men either. Asian, Black, and Hispanic men comprised 37 (7.4 percent), eight (1.6 percent), and 17 (3.4 percent) of the CEOs, respectively. Meanwhile, among the highest paid executives in S&P 100 companies, women of color represented three percent, while men of color represented 18 percent. The report concludes that though we have women CEOs at major corporations like Oracle (Safra Catz), Accenture (Julie Sweet), and GM (Mary Barra), there is still a long way to go. As explored previously on The Hill, a 2022 study from three U.S. academics entitled 'Potential' and the Gender Promotion Gap, revealed men are often promoted for showing promise, while women are expected to have achieved something significant first. Advanced AI resume screening software, like Dash, can be trained to ignore names and any details that give away an applicant's gender, ensuring a much more equitable hiring process. However, for very senior roles like CEO, promoting and sourcing candidates is more likely to be person-to-person, relying heavily on internal networks and direct relationships, rather than broad external searches. It's clear that closing the leadership gender gap in America's largest corporations still requires continued effort. And Women's Power Gap's report calls on companies to remove structural barriers, and foster merit-based culture to ensure equal opportunities for all aspiring leaders. If you're not on the CEO track in your organization, but want to advance your career or explore senior leadership opportunities, check out The Hill's job board, which offers a wide range of senior positions across government, policy, and corporate sectors. Ready to find a new role? Browse thousands of jobs on The Hill Job Board
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Korn Ferry's (NYSE:KFY) Q1: Beats On Revenue
Organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) reported Q1 CY2025 results topping the market's revenue expectations , with sales up 2.8% year on year to $719.8 million. On the other hand, next quarter's revenue guidance of $685 million was less impressive, coming in 1% below analysts' estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $1.32 per share was 4.7% above analysts' consensus estimates. Is now the time to buy Korn Ferry? Find out in our full research report. Revenue: $719.8 million vs analyst estimates of $699 million (2.8% year-on-year growth, 3% beat) Adjusted EPS: $1.32 vs analyst estimates of $1.26 (4.7% beat) Adjusted EBITDA: $121.1 million vs analyst estimates of $116.8 million (16.8% margin, 3.7% beat) Revenue Guidance for Q2 CY2025 is $685 million at the midpoint, below analyst estimates of $691.8 million Adjusted EPS guidance for Q2 CY2025 is $1.22 at the midpoint, above analyst estimates of $1.20 Operating Margin: 14.5%, up from 11.9% in the same quarter last year Market Capitalization: $3.45 billion 'Even amid the ever-changing global economic and political dynamics, we continue to deliver on our financial and strategic objectives, just as we have over the past several years. Our results reinforce the premise of Korn Ferry's diversification strategy and our continued momentum,' said Gary D. Burnison, CEO, Korn Ferry. With clients including 97% of the S&P 100 and operations in 103 offices across 51 countries, Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) is a global consulting firm that helps organizations design optimal structures, recruit talent, develop leaders, and create effective compensation strategies. A company's long-term sales performance can indicate its overall quality. Any business can put up a good quarter or two, but many enduring ones grow for years. With $2.76 billion in revenue over the past 12 months, Korn Ferry is a mid-sized business services company, which sometimes brings disadvantages compared to larger competitors benefiting from better economies of scale. On the bright side, it can still flex high growth rates because it's working from a smaller revenue base. As you can see below, Korn Ferry grew its sales at a decent 6.9% compounded annual growth rate over the last five years. This shows its offerings generated slightly more demand than the average business services company, a useful starting point for our analysis. Long-term growth is the most important, but within business services, a half-decade historical view may miss new innovations or demand cycles. Korn Ferry's recent performance marks a sharp pivot from its five-year trend as its revenue has shown annualized declines of 1.8% over the last two years. This quarter, Korn Ferry reported modest year-on-year revenue growth of 2.8% but beat Wall Street's estimates by 3%. Company management is currently guiding for flat sales next quarter. Looking further ahead, sell-side analysts expect revenue to grow 1.6% over the next 12 months. Although this projection indicates its newer products and services will fuel better top-line performance, it is still below the sector average. Here at StockStory, we certainly understand the potential of thematic investing. Diverse winners from Microsoft (MSFT) to Alphabet (GOOG), Coca-Cola (KO) to Monster Beverage (MNST) could all have been identified as promising growth stories with a megatrend driving the growth. So, in that spirit, we've identified a relatively under-the-radar profitable growth stock benefiting from the rise of AI, available to you FREE via this link. Operating margin is a key measure of profitability. Think of it as net income - the bottom line - excluding the impact of taxes and interest on debt, which are less connected to business fundamentals. Korn Ferry has done a decent job managing its cost base over the last five years. The company has produced an average operating margin of 11.7%, higher than the broader business services sector. Looking at the trend in its profitability, Korn Ferry's operating margin rose by 4 percentage points over the last five years, as its sales growth gave it operating leverage. In Q1, Korn Ferry generated an operating margin profit margin of 14.5%, up 2.6 percentage points year on year. This increase was a welcome development and shows it was more efficient. Revenue trends explain a company's historical growth, but the long-term change in earnings per share (EPS) points to the profitability of that growth – for example, a company could inflate its sales through excessive spending on advertising and promotions. Korn Ferry's EPS grew at a remarkable 11% compounded annual growth rate over the last five years, higher than its 6.9% annualized revenue growth. This tells us the company became more profitable on a per-share basis as it expanded. We can take a deeper look into Korn Ferry's earnings quality to better understand the drivers of its performance. As we mentioned earlier, Korn Ferry's operating margin expanded by 4 percentage points over the last five years. On top of that, its share count shrank by 1.9%. These are positive signs for shareholders because improving profitability and share buybacks turbocharge EPS growth relative to revenue growth. In Q1, Korn Ferry reported EPS at $1.32, up from $1.26 in the same quarter last year. This print beat analysts' estimates by 4.7%. Over the next 12 months, Wall Street expects Korn Ferry's full-year EPS of $4.92 to grow 1.8%. We enjoyed seeing Korn Ferry beat analysts' revenue expectations this quarter. We were also happy its EPS guidance for next quarter outperformed Wall Street's estimates. On the other hand, its revenue guidance for next quarter slightly missed. Overall, this print had some key positives. The stock traded up 4% to $69.35 immediately following the results. So should you invest in Korn Ferry right now? What happened in the latest quarter matters, but not as much as longer-term business quality and valuation, when deciding whether to invest in this stock. We cover that in our actionable full research report which you can read here, it's free. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Capital One Financial Corporation to Webcast Conference Call on Second Quarter 2025 Earnings
MCLEAN, Va., June 13, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at approximately 4:05 p.m. Eastern Time, Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) will release its second quarter 2025 earnings results. Additionally, the company will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to review financial and operating performance for the quarter ending June 30, 2025. The call will be webcast live and the earnings release will be available on the company's homepage at A replay of the webcast will be available 24 hours a day, beginning two hours after the conference call, until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 5, 2025, through the company's homepage. About Capital One Capital One Financial Corporation ( is a financial holding company which, along with its subsidiaries, had $367.5 billion in deposits and $493.6 billion in total assets as of March 31, 2025. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients through a variety of channels. Capital One, N.A. has branches and Cafés located primarily in New York, Louisiana, Texas, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. A Fortune 500 company, Capital One trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "COF" and is included in the S&P 100 index. Additional information about Capital One can be found at Capital One About, or on LinkedIn at View source version on Contacts Angela Solomon Sie Soheili
Business Wire
13-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Capital One Financial Corporation to Webcast Conference Call on Second Quarter 2025 Earnings
MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at approximately 4:05 p.m. Eastern Time, Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) will release its second quarter 2025 earnings results. Additionally, the company will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to review financial and operating performance for the quarter ending June 30, 2025. The call will be webcast live and the earnings release will be available on the company's homepage at A replay of the webcast will be available 24 hours a day, beginning two hours after the conference call, until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 5, 2025, through the company's homepage. About Capital One Capital One Financial Corporation ( is a financial holding company which, along with its subsidiaries, had $367.5 billion in deposits and $493.6 billion in total assets as of March 31, 2025. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients through a variety of channels. Capital One, N.A. has branches and Cafés located primarily in New York, Louisiana, Texas, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. A Fortune 500 company, Capital One trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'COF' and is included in the S&P 100 index. Additional information about Capital One can be found at Capital One About, or on LinkedIn at
CNBC
10-06-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Former Wall Street analyst building market AI on why stock pickers won't go extinct
Wall Street isn't immune from the plot line that has generative AI resulting in wholesale knowledge worker replacement. A new tool from AlphaSense, called Deep Research, won't provide any comfort. The generative AI agent functions like a team of analysts operating at what AlphaSense calls "superhuman speed," generating research and market insights, and building investment-grade briefings. But Jack Kokko, AlphaSense CEO and a former Morgan Stanley analyst and Wharton School MBA, isn't worried about the job outlook for Wall Street professionals. "It's a popular narrative," Kokko told CNBC of the job replacement fears during an interview on "The Exchange" on Tuesday after AlphaSense ranked No. 8 on the 2025 CNBC Disruptor 50 list. "But I would not be so sure," he said. What Deep Research does is tap into the AlphaSense universe of more than 500 million business and financial documents, which includes filings, press releases, content about public and private companies, and expert insights based on call transcripts. Last year, the company spent nearly $1 billion to buy Tegus and its library of a quarter-million business-focused interviews. "There are a hundred on a single company, and no human can read it all, but Deep Research will read it all and ask questions," Kokko said. It will answer questions too, ones that Wall Street analysts are often paid to field, within minutes. The company, which dates back to 2011 and has had Goldman Sachs Growth Asset Management as an investor since its origin, already offers rapid summaries of equity research and real-time customizable reports. And it already has a tool called Generative Search designed to think like an analyst, ask natural language questions and receive precise insights sourced from AlphaSense's content, which covers 37 languages. Any of of its enterprise intelligence customers in equities research, corporate development and finance, on or off Wall Street, will be able to plug their internal document libraries into Deep Research, which will then be able to take both pro and con positions, and offer internal and external perspectives, in a report generated in record time. "It would have taken a human analyst days or weeks," Kokko said. "I was an analyst," he added. The company says it counts majority of the S&P 100 as clients. That client base grew by about 25% in 2024, to more than 5,000, including Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, Pfizer and JPMorgan. For companies making investments that run into the millions or billions of dollars, being able to make these decisions on the back of all of this information is a revelation, Kokko said, citing the experience of a private equity firm that told AlphaSense that Deep Research did the same or even better on a report the AI ran than its in-house analysts could do in weeks. There are plenty of reasons to believe that this is all bad news for knowledge professionals like finance bros. And more CEOs are starting to talk that way, from Shopify's CEO who recently said no job hire requisitions will be approved unless a manager can prove that the job can't be done by AI, to fellow Disruptor Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei, who recently said AI would wipe out up to half of entry-level office jobs and whose latest Claude model can work 7 hours straight without a break or burnout. Wall Street's long embrace of AI has only accelerated in the wake of OpenAI's arrival in 2022. Last August, JPMorgan Chase rolled out a generative artificial intelligence assistant to employees that can help them with tasks like writing emails and reports, while Morgan Stanley has already released a pair of OpenAI-powered tools for its financial advisors. In January, Goldman Sachs gave its bankers, traders and asset managers access to a generative AI assistant the first stage in the evolution of a program that will eventually take on the traits of a seasoned Goldman employee, Goldman Sachs Chief Information Officer Marco Argenti told CNBC. But Kokko is still of the belief that the latest AI will enhance the jobs of Wall Street analysts rather than threaten them. "What it does is make human analysts and business people so much more productive," he said. "That person will be operating with a higher ROI [return on investment] and companies don't cut high ROI people," he added. What AI job doomsday soothsayers are dismissing too easily today is "the top line expansion that comes from being able to do things in a much more agile way," Kokko said. "It's 10x prior productivity when it is you and the machine," he added.
