Braun, Matías; Ferreira, Tiago; Ortiz M., Marcelo - 2022
We find that firms that meet or just beat last’s year earnings (henceforth, MBE firms) have a lower post-filing stock return volatility in the month following the 10-K filing. We also find that this negative relation is stronger for the MBE firms providing more readable 10-K. Furthermore, we...