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We compare the stock return forecasting performance of alternative payout yields. The net payout yield produces more accurate forecasts relative to alternatives, including the traditional dividend yield. This remains true even after excluding several years during the Great Depression when...
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Through the difference-in-differences (DID) methodology, we find that the connection of China’s high-speed railway (HSR) as an exogenous shock could improve analysts’ forecast performance, leading to more accurate forecasts, decrease the dispersion between analysts, stimulate more forecast...
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A great number of academic papers evaluate the potential for incentive-driven bias in sell-side analysts' earnings forecasts. Yet bias does not necessarily invalidate a forecast, nor does it impinge on its relative quality. We find that analysts' forecasts are optimistic relative to recently...
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relying on traditional approaches to predicting analyst errors. I highlight estimation bias associated with traditional …
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This study presents direct evidence on the question whether investors recognize the widely documented biases in securities analysts' earnings forecasts. The internal rate of return implied by current stock price and consensus earnings forecasts is found to be correlated with indicators of bias...
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We investigate whether analysts' long-term growth (LTG) forecasts are a signal of analyst effort, which is reflected in the long-term profitability of their stock recommendations. We develop a one-year-ahead LTG forecast likelihood score and execute a trading strategy that generates average...
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In recent years, a great deal of attention has been devoted to the use of neural networks in portfolio management, particularly in the prediction of stock prices. Building a more profitable portfolio with less risk has always been a challenging task. In this study, we propose a model to build a...
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Investor relations represents a firm's commitment to communicate effectively with the external community which includes investors and analysts and both mandatory and voluntary information release is expected to reduce information asymmetry. We investigate the effects of disclosure quality on...
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