Why is it important for a corporation to maintain the confidence of the stockholder?

It's almost like confidence is its own commodity and serious investors try to beat the curve and buy stock at a point just before confidence rises (leading to a higher market value for the stock). If confidence in a company's stock is perpetually high (Coca-Cola, Walmart), you can assume that investors won't see a relatively high return on their investment. People invest in these kinds of companies because they're confident that the company is a …showed first 75 words of 586 total…

…showed last 75 words of 586 total…company. Wise man. He know has one the largest natural gas and Co2 transport companies (which is what Enron was) in the Nation. We are a low-cost asset operator. The company caps salaries, and we don't have a lot of corporate perks, or unneccessary overhead. It is a very cost effictive corporation. We look at the long term outcome. With being so cost effictive, and low-cost asset operators it has made our stock sky rocket.