Skip to content
Issuers

For listed companies

Investor relations for small caps and mid caps

Investor relations for small caps and mid caps with a lean team means one workspace for the earnings cycle, meeting briefs, the shareholder base, disclosure and the IR website, so one or two people cover what large caps staff with ten.
Head of investor relations at a listed small cap preparing for an earnings call at her desk

01 The problem

Large cap expectations on a small cap budget

A listed company with a market value between a few hundred million and a few billion dollars faces the same rules as a large cap. Results every quarter, an annual report, current reports for material events, Regulation FD in the US or MAR in the EU, and investors who expect a polished IR website and quick answers.

The IR function is usually one person, sometimes two, plus the CFO. The tools are split across a spreadsheet CRM, an IR website vendor, a surveillance report bought once a year, a shared drive for the Q&A and an Outlook calendar for filing dates. Each tool is sold separately, often on a sales led contract built for much larger companies.

The result is time spent on assembly instead of on investors. Briefs are built by hand before every meeting, the same analyst question gets three slightly different answers across a quarter, and nobody notices that a fund doubled its position until the next annual review.

02 Earnings cycle

The quarter from close to follow up

Each quarter follows the same rhythm. Issuers keeps the rhythm in one place, so the work of last quarter becomes the starting point for this one.

  1. Step 1

    Before the release

    The disclosure calendar shows the 10-Q or 10-K date and the release date with owners and reminders. Copilot drafts the call script from the results file.

  2. Step 2

    Call preparation

    Likely analyst questions come from past calls and peer calls. Approved answers live in the Q&A library and get reused, so answers stay consistent.

  3. Step 3

    Release day

    The release passes its approval steps, the publication checklist closes and the hosted IR pages update with results, slides and the event.

  4. Step 4

    After the call

    Copilot writes the call summary. Follow-up meetings each get a brief, and every interaction lands in the CRM for Reg FD review.

More detail on earnings call preparation, from the script to the Q&A library.

03 Shareholder base

Know who bought, who sold and who went quiet

Institutional managers in the US report their holdings each quarter on Form 13F, and larger stakes appear in Schedule 13D and 13G filings. Issuers turns these public filings into ownership snapshots for your stock: top holders, the biggest buyers and sellers since the last period and holders who have not been in touch for a year.

Those lists drive action. New buyers get a welcome call, sellers get a check-in to understand why, and quiet holders get an invitation to the next roadshow. Funds that hold your peers but not you become targets. Read more about shareholder identification.

Holdings filings are reported with a delay and show positions at quarter end, so snapshots show the latest public picture, not today. Each figure carries its source so you know which filing it comes from.

04 Meeting briefs

A one page brief before every investor meeting

The CEO and CFO meet investors between other duties. A brief that fits on one screen lets them walk in prepared: the fund, its style and size, its position in your stock and how it changed, what it asked last time and the topics that are safe to discuss.

Issuers builds each brief from public filings and your own CRM notes, and every number links to its source. The Public plan includes 120 briefs a month, enough for a full roadshow season and the meetings around each results call.

After the meeting, IR logs the interaction in one step. The log is the record your legal team reviews for Reg FD and MAR, and the starting point for the next brief.

05 Disclosure and IR website

File on time and publish the same hour

Disclosure workflow

Announcement drafts, approval steps for CFO, CEO and legal, a material event log and MAR insider lists, with a full audit trail kept for 7 years. Every deadline sits in the calendar with an owner.

Hosted IR pages

News, results, events, governance and documents on your own subdomain, updated from the same workspace. Engagement analytics show which investors read what. See the IR website module.

06 Plan

Public is the plan for listed issuers

$1,499

Per month billed yearly, or $2,999 billed monthly

10

Users for IR, finance, legal and the CEO

120

Meeting briefs per month

7 years

Audit trail retention

Groups with several listed entities or a dual listing, and teams that need SSO, choose Enterprise. All plans start from checkout on the pricing page.

Questions

Questions issuers ask before they start

How do small caps attract institutional investors?
By being easy to understand and easy to meet. Small caps that win institutional holders publish clear results, answer the same questions consistently, target funds whose mandate fits their size and sector, and follow up after every meeting. Issuers helps with each step: targeting from public holdings filings, briefs before meetings, a Q&A library and follow ups in the CRM.
What does an IR team of one need each quarter?
A dependable calendar of filing dates, a results script and Q&A ready before the call, briefs for the meetings after it, a view of who bought and sold in the latest holdings filings, and an IR website that is updated the same day. The Public plan covers all of this in one workspace.
How do we prepare the CEO for investor meetings?
Give the CEO one page per meeting: who the fund is, what it holds and how that changed, what it asked last time, three talking points and the topics to avoid under Reg FD. Issuers builds that brief from public filings and your CRM, with every figure linked to its source.

Related

Related tools in the same workspace

See the brief your CEO would read

Type your ticker and read a sample investor meeting brief from your public filings. The Public plan costs $1,499 a month billed yearly.

Compare plans