Corporate spin-offs create new firms with characteristics markedly different from the original firm. Consequently, institutional investors pre-committed to certain investment styles and/or subject to fiduciary restrictions have incentives to rebalance their portfolios at the time of the...

Because spin-offs create new firms with characteristics markedly different from the original firm, institutional investors pre-committed to certain investment styles and/or subject to fiduciary restrictions have incentives to rebalance their portfolios at the time of the spin-off. Prior articles...

We examine whether the application of basic concepts of fundamental analysis can yield significant abnormal returns. Using a collection of signals that reflect traditional rules offundamental analysis related to contemporaneous changes in inventories, accounts receivables, gross margins, selling...

This paper studies the information links that connect detailed financial statement data and security prices. We establish empirically the underlying relations between rules of fundamental analysis and: 1) analysts' earnings forecast revisions, 2) actual future earnings changes and 3) security...

This paper examines empirical relations between rules of fundamental analysis and actual future earnings changes, analysts' earnings forecast revisions, and contemporaneous stock returns. Our results indicate that many of the fundamental signals are related to future earnings and forecast...

A substantial body of academic literature provides evidence of stock market trading strategies that generate appreciable abnormal returns. However, there are a number of factors that could partially or fully mitigate the ability of market participants to implement these trading strategies, such...