forecast properties. The evidence shows that analysts' earnings forecast accuracy is higher and the forecast dispersion is … higher forecast accuracy and less forecast dispersion in the non-Big Five auditor sample but not in the Big Five auditor …

forecast properties. The evidence shows that analysts' earnings forecast accuracy is higher and the forecast dispersion is … higher forecast accuracy and less forecast dispersion in the non-Big Five auditor sample but not in the Big Five auditor …

in private debt contracts. We find greater proximity between the analysts' consensus earnings forecast and the future …

forecasts by 25.3%. This study may be the first of its kind to assess analyst earnings forecast accuracy at all listed companies …

forecast when actual earnings exceed the consensus and the most pessimistic forecast when the consensus exceeds actual earnings …

We analyze three different mechanical models to forecast earnings and compare their forecasts with those of analysts … from analysts' forecasts more reliable than ICCs based on model forecasts? And 3) does higher forecast performance also … reliability of analyst-based ICCs seems to indicate a missing link between forecast performance and ICC reliability, in fact …

assessment is relative to extrapolative time-series models of earnings forecasts. The paper's results show that the forecast … on extrapolative models' forecast errors is stronger than on analysts'. This finding is consistent with analysts' better … ability relative to extrapolative models to forecast the earnings of intangible firms, and with analysts' ability to process …

reflect the predictable component of analyst forecast errors. This evidence conflicts with conclusions in prior research … characteristic and analyst forecasts predicts future analyst forecast errors, forecast revisions, and changes in buy …/sell recommendations. I document abnormal returns to a strategy that sorts firms based on predicted forecast errors, consistent with …

This study examines the stock-price reactions to analyst forecast revisions around earnings announcements to test … suggests that prior studies' finding of weaker (stronger) stock-price responses to forecast revisions in the period immediately …