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expected in stock prices and actual forecast errors are limited to certain cases. Aanalysts expedite the propagation of …
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We find that financial analysts provide more thorough forecasts when firms’ institutional investors are distracted (i.e., when firms are neglected). We establish the causality of the effect by identifying exogenous shocks leading to institutional investor distraction following Kempf, Manconi,...
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aspect of this research paradigm by examining investor response to analyst forecast revisions using accounting restatements … convey about forecast accuracy inrestatement firms than in non-restatement firms. The evidence also suggests that the level … analysis demonstrates that the innovation in forecast revisions also affects the association between investor response and …
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We correlate analysts' forecast errors with temporal variation in investor sentiment. We find that when sentiment is … “uncertain” or “difficult to value” firms. Adding these forecast errors to a regression of stock returns on sentiment absorbs a …
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We test the implications of anchoring bias associated with forecast earnings per share (FEPS) for forecast errors … more positive forecast revisions, more negative forecast errors, and more negative earnings surprises after a stock split …
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' earnings forecasts. We show that measures of prior consensus and individual analyst forecast pessimism are predictive of both … with a relatively high probability of forecast pessimism experience significantly higher announcement returns than those … difficulty investors have in identifying differences in expected forecast pessimism. Overall, we conclude that market prices do …
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implications for analysts' forecast errors conditioned on the errors being positive and negative. We then use proxies for positive …
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are relatively more pessimistic than the consensus forecast. This effect is stronger when the analyst is closer to the …
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We extend the literature by investigating whether analysts cater their coverage to investor information demand. Results suggest that analysts' coverage is contemporaneously positively associated with investor information demand, and negatively associated with the previous time periods...
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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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