Companies' earnings conference calls are perceived to be venues for sell-side equity analysts to ask management questions. In this study, we examine another important conference call participant — the buy-side analyst — that has been underexplored in the literature due to data limitations....

Companies' earnings conference calls are perceived to be venues for sell-side equity analysts to ask management questions. In this study, we examine another important conference call participant — the buy-side analyst — that has been underexplored in the literature due to data limitations....

We examine employees' business outlooks (EBO) from Glassdoor.com, an online job search and employee review platform. We find that EBO and their seasonally adjusted changes are positively associated with one-quarter-ahead analysts' earnings forecast revisions and forecast errors. This former...