This study investigates security analysts' reactions to public management guidance and assesses whether managers successfully guide analysts toward beatable earnings targets. We use a panel dataset between 1995 and 2001 to examine the fiscal-quarter-specific determinants of management guidance...

We comprehensively examine the superiority of various statistical methods and analysts’ forecasts in predicting earnings to provide an updated view on the best surrogate of earnings expectations. We also evaluate the impact of specification choices used in recent studies that implement ML...