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This paper addresses the role of security analysts in the short-term market reaction to the publication of a going -concern (GC) modified audit report. We find that the 3-day mean abnormal return associated with the GC announcement is at least -6.9% for firms with analyst coverage in comparison...
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This paper evaluates the informativeness of analysts’ ratings and earnings forecast information contained in analyst …
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We investigate the incremental information conveyed by management forecast errors over and above the consensus analyst … forecast error at the time of earnings announcement. To the extent that analysts rationally revise their forecasts to subsume … and the subsequent analyst forecasts are different, management forecast errors convey information to the stock market that …
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forecast errors and revisions. I find abnormal returns to strategies that sort firms by predicted forecast errors, consistent …
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This study explores whether security analysts recognize firms’ going-concern problems and report appropriately to investors. We find that analysts signal their anticipation of the publication of a going-concern modified (GCM) audit report in two ways: 1) they downgrade more aggressively stock...
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Recent research finds that many analyst recommendation revisions take place shortly after earnings announcements. Altinkilic and Hansen (2009) attribute the clustering of recommendations to analysts strategically piggybacking on earnings information to improve the perceived performance of their...
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In recent years, users' information needs have changed, and forward-looking information has become of great importance, as it has been highlighted in many international and national reports. Nonetheless, Spanish regulations are not very specific in this respect, since although it is required to...
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context, Australian sharemarket initial public offerings. This article extends the literature on company forecast risk by … internationalisation) and by refining others. The study investigates the association between earnings forecast risk and conventional ex …-ante uncertainty proxies used to explain IPO underpricing. Ex-ante and ex-post explanatory variables are distinguished and a forecast …
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The aim of this paper is to examine what has been the role of information provision to the market throughout the crisis. We consider two main sources of information to the market, financial statements and information provided by credit rating agencies. We examine how these sources of information...
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We analyze earnings forecasts retrieved from the I/B/E/S database concerning 596 firms for the sample 1995 to 2011, with a specific focus on whether these earnings forecasts can be predicted from available data. Our main result is that earnings forecasts can be predicted quite accurately using...
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