We examine the role of concurrent information in the striking increase in investor response to earnings announcements from 2001 to 2016, as measured by return variability and volume following Beaver (1968). We find management guidance, analyst forecasts, and disaggregated financial statement...

Prior literature shows that earnings have come to explain less stock price movement over time, suggesting that firm fundamental information has become less important. In this paper, we replace earnings with earnings announcement returns as a measure of firm fundamental news and find that these...

Prior research has failed to document a consistent association between oil prices and stock prices. We propose and examine whether that failure is due to the need to link oil price changes to firm-level changes in earnings and investments. We find that the impact of oil prices on a firm's...

This study develops a framework to compare the ability of alternative earnings forecast approaches to capture the market expectation of future earnings. Given prior evidence of analysts' systematic optimistic bias, we decompose earnings surprises into analysts' earnings surprises and adjustments...

This paper develops an equilibrium model featuring heterogeneity in investor risk tolerance across different risk sources. Using Australian data, it confirms the theoretical predictions of the model, by showing that a higher imputation credit yield in one year leads to a lower stock return in...

Prior studies use fundamental earnings forecasts to proxy for the market's expectations of earnings because analyst forecasts are biased and are available for only a subset of firms. We find that as a proxy for market expectations, fundamental forecasts contain systematic measurement errors...

We extend prior research examining the relation between aggregate recommendation changes and future returns by documenting that this relation varies over time as a function of the predictability of future earnings growth. When industry-level earnings growth is more predictable, we find that...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the The Impact of Financial Limitation and Liquidity on the Stock Returns of Companies Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. Financial constraints and stock liquidity as independent variable and stock returns are considered as independent variable and...

Managers appear to inflate non-investment accruals and then adjust financing decisions to capitalize on such inflation. Using a large sample of corporate seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) for the period 1972 - 2017, we find that firms which adjust non-investment accruals to inflate pre-issue...

The media commonly gauges a firm's performance by comparing its performance to others within the same industry. We provide evidence that investors and analysts positively value improvements to the firm's relative performance ranking (RPR) within its industry. Consistently, RPR is positively...