How stock markets react to news is an established area of research. We examine the behaviour of the Saudi Stock market (SSM) in response to earnings announcements where there are no analysts' forecasts, with the aim of examining the efficiency of the market. We conduct sector-level analysis to...

We find that both institutional owners and short sellers decrease their positions prior to earnings announcements, and increase their positions in the post-announcement period. Pre-announcement changes in institutional holdings and short interest have significant explanatory power with respect...

We show that 71% of the earnings announcement premium takes place before, rather than after, earning releases. We attribute this pattern to uncertainty resolution before earnings announcement, and provide compelling evidence that high uncertainty stocks experience more uncertainty resolution and...

The relation between average equity return and market exposure behaves distinctively on days on which early earnings announcements are made by firms for which the announcements have a large spillover “influence” on discount rates and expectations of earnings for related firms. On such days...

Speed of stock price response is important because if response is slow, the informed and alert investors would exploit it to earn abnormal returns by outperforming the market. This implies that market is inefficient in the semi-strong form. The study tests the reaction Indian stock market...

This paper investigates the market reaction to earnings announcements in public family firms and whether this type of announcements affect firm's return, liquidity and cost of capital, providing also evidence on whether family businesses differ from non-family ones in what concerns the earnings...

Using a sample of NASDAQ firms we investigate informed trading in the limit order book (LOB) prior to earnings announcements. Consistent with recent limit order theory, and in contrast to classic adverse selection models, we show that informed traders supply liquidity. Relative to a sample of...

Theory offers three main determinants of informationally driven trading volume at earnings announcements: pre-announcement difference in private information precision, belief divergence or differential interpretation, and signal strength. In this paper, we empirically test which theoretical...

This paper provides new evidence that investor attention explains positive returns around earnings announcements and reconciles the attention explanation with information-based explanations in the literature. I use earnings notifications, which are attention-grabbing announcements of the...

This study examines the relation between both number and news content of earnings disclosures by firms and aggregate stock market trading activity. Consistent with the Hirshleifer, Lim, and Teoh (2009a) distraction hypothesis, among announcing firms the number of contemporaneous announcers...