Stock market prediction has always caught the attention of many analysts and researchers. Popular theories suggest that stock markets are essentially a random walk and it is a fool’s game to try and predict them. Predicting stock prices is a challenging problem in itself because of the number...

This paper examines the impact of teamwork on sell-side analysts' performance. Using a hand-collected sample of over 50,000 analyst research reports, we find that analyst teams issue more than 70% of annual earnings forecasts. In contrast, most prior research implicitly assumes that forecasts...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to test whether financial analysts' rationality in making stocks' earnings forecasts is homogenous or not across different information regimes in stocks' past returns. Design/methodology/approach - By treating stocks' past returns as the information...