This study examines the extent to which analyst recommendations were useful in identifying earnings surprises during the pre- and post- Regulation FD periods. A comparative analysis of the association between recommendation revisions and subsequent earnings surprises suggests a significant...

This study examines the relationship between the value of financial analysts' recommendations and the intensity of firms' research and development (R&D) expenditures. We conduct univariate, portfolio and regression analyses using a sample of 8,620 public firms for the period 1993-2004. The...

We select a small set of recommendations that lie in the upper and lower tail of the empirical distribution of divergences between a recommendation, and the consensus over the window (-30, -1)-days prior to that recommendation. We classify these extremely divergent recommendations as bold, and...