Using analysts' multi-period earnings forecasts, this paper investigates whether analyst forecast errors are related to asset growth and, if so, to what extent analysts' optimism for high-growth firms can explain the asset growth anomaly. We find that analyst forecasts are more optimistic for...

We argue that accounting conservatism makes earnings forecasting difficult by introducing transitory components in reported earnings. These transitory components are likely to be disproportionately represented in firms reporting losses. We show that analysts' mean forecast errors and absolute...

This study examines how competition affects the profitability of mutual funds' trading on the post earnings announcement drift (PEAD). Our results show that while the average fund actively pursuing this strategy does not generate significant outperformance, funds that manage to avoid competition...