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A gaggle of analysts
Thanks to Seeking Alpha's transcripts on open web, the data was out there and just needed to be aggergated.
I checked some 15k conference call transcripts from Seeking Alpha from Jun 30th 2009 to some time in 2007 and aggregated the number of analysts attending each of the earnings conference call. Following is what the distribution looks like.
The big fat belly of the curve is at roughly 7 analysts in a conference call. I am pretty sure there is some dependency on number of analysts to institutional interest in the stock and also market cap and would be interesting to normalize by that.
But even in this raw data there are a few companies which have more than 18-20 analysts listening in.
Here is a list of call transcripts in last few months that have unusually high number of analysts.
I don't know what the correlation of future stock performance to how many analsyts are listening in or to the delta of number of analysts from last call. Would love to hear what you think.
Disclosure: Long GOOG