This paper examines whether security analyst earnings forecasts for firms primarily operating in the gold market can be utilised to predict returns on the price of gold.We first demonstrate that analysts are at least in part basing their earnings forecasts for gold firms on the return...

We show the value of adding cashflow spreads to value spreads to forecast long/short factor returns. These spreads, namely the profitability and investment spreads, have significant forecasting power for a number of factors. Including cashflow spreads also increases the predictive power of the...