Yes they would. There have been sever times I've spoken with an IR dept. and they have been honest. I spoke to MDW IR and sold at $0.25. I greatly appreciated their factual data that was provided. If you ask enough questions you'll get to the truth. Additionally, it's not so much the words as to their implicit meaning. a statment like ..."yes we're optimistic" is far different than saying "Yes, Very optimistic!" Tone means quite a bit.