Q2 Earnings Scheduled Tues Aug 8th after market closes

Confirmed. Conference call scheduled after hours, Anne didnt give me a cc time but if past cc's are a guide should be 4:30 est.

There is nothing on OPKO's website under investor relations either. With less than a week away, you would think they'd make more of an announcement. I wonder if the analysts have been made aware.

Agree. They will probably issue a late pr to keep the number of analysts on the call to a minimum. This is just my opinion but I don't think Rayaldee sales are meeting projections and they probably want to keep the tough questions to a minimum. It also indicates they won't come close to meeting the ridiculous analyst predictions (no surprise there). I'll be interested to hear what 4Kscore sales are for the quarter as Dr. Frost specifically said he wanted to increase sales "in a meaningful way" this year. It will tell us how the team is executing on his goals.

Another conclusion that I have come to is conference calls from the analyst standpoints are a joke and a way for the analyst to get his/her name out there.

Most of the questions have already been answered or they just want a little more in-depth information on a statement that has already been made.

The real information for the analysts will be learned from private meetings with the executives within the company and the analysts customers.

Here is some information from Matt Levine with Bloomberg.

www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-03-21/research-conflicts-and-speed-bumps

There are two models of sell-side equity research.

Model 1
* Sell-side analysts are in the business of finding out what stocks will go up and then telling you.
* They tell you to Buy stocks that will go up, Hold stocks that will stay flat (why?), and Sell stocks that go down.
* You believe them, and do that.
* Sometimes they lie to you, but it is always a shock when they do.


Model 2 
* Sell-side analysts are in the business of helping institutional investors get access to corporate management teams.
* They flatter management teams by giving most companies good ratings, to maintain access.
* They help their clients, because investors who meet with management tend to outperform investors who don't.
* The clients aren't too worried about the Buy/Sell/Hold stuff.
I more or less believe Model 2, though I recognize that it is imperfect and incomplete. But there is plenty of empirical evidence for it.

David Strasser, a former retail analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, says some investors told him they had little interest in his research and were only paying for meetings he could set up with companies.
“I wanted to be valued for my analytical abilities, but arranging meetings became such a critical part of the job,” says Mr. Strasser, adding that he was sometimes asked to sit outside the room so investors could ask questions without him.