To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124 or greater is installed. Using this subset of companies, we compiled financial performance and share price information for the period 2003-2007, eliminating from consideration those companies for which complete period data were not available. This was done to make sure that the comparisons were consistent over time in terms of the number of firms included in each year’s metrics. As a result, our first peer group analysis is based on a review of 423 firms from within the S&P 500. Previous studies looked at basic financial metrics such as sales, market value and profit, measures that directly relate to a company’s financial performance. Comparisons of these metrics between users and nonusers have typically revealed a wide disparity of performance that favored the users. Therefore, the studies concluded that users perform significantly “better” than nonusers.
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