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empirical study has investigated the nexus between the analyst forecast dispersion (AFD) and excess returns surrounding stock …
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positively associated with analyst coverage, the size of forecast errors, as well as the extent of forecast dispersion … and both forecast accuracy and dispersion is stronger for firms in the resources and mining industries, and for longer … forecast horizons. Our results are consistent with heightened EPU being associated with a decline in firms’ information …
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Previous research finds that stock analysts exhibit both optimistic and pessimistic biases in their earnings forecasts, with the net result being a consistent, but declining, overestimation of forecasted earnings. We extend this research by examining the potential effect of Seasonal Affective...
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forecasts by 25.3%. This study may be the first of its kind to assess analyst earnings forecast accuracy at all listed companies …
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We define a sentiment indicator based on option prices, valuation ratios and interest rates. The indicator can be interpreted as a lower bound on the expected growth in fundamentals that a rational investor would have to perceive in order to be happy to hold the market. The lower bound was...
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We document that investors can actually profit from the contemporaneous link between earnings accuracy and recommendation profitability (Loh and Mian (2006)). Differentiating between "able" and "lucky" analysts we suggest an implementable, i.e. look-ahead bias free, trading strategy that yields...
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Analysts providing more accurate earnings forecasts also issue more profitable recommendations. We demonstrate how investors can profit from this contemporaneous link by differentiating between "able" and "lucky" analysts. In line with previous studies, we find that past track records alone are...
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