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In Latest Poll, Director Confidence Grows For 2025
Directors are hopeful the upcoming presidential election will be one of the last remaining hurdles to growth, as companies prepare to increase capex amid improving market indicators.
Launched in the third quarter of 2020, the Director Confidence Index is America’s first monthly pulse survey of public company board members on their perspective of the economy and how policies and current events are affecting the companies they oversee. Every quarter, Corporate Board Member and Diligent partner to ask thousands of public company directors the same three questions regarding their confidence in the current business environment, their outlook for the economy 12 months from now, and their projections for their board company’s revenue, profit, capex and cash/debt ratio for the year ahead. Supplementing those three questions are questions on current events, as they pertain to corporate strategy and governance.
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Directors are hopeful the upcoming presidential election will be one of the last remaining hurdles to growth, as companies prepare to increase capex amid improving market indicators.
Director sentiment in current and future business conditions slipped slightly in April, though an increasing proportion expect improvements post-election. Also: They really like the comp plans they have in place.
Director projections for profit and revenue growth reached multi-year highs this month, but directors remain split in their predictions for where the economy is headed.
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