We use trade-level data to examine the role of actively managed funds (AMFs) in earnings news dissemination. We find AMFs are drawn to, and participate disproportionately more in, earnings announcements (EAs) that include bundled managerial guidance. When the two pieces of news are directionally...

I study how investor horizons affect the price reaction of the stocks to earnings announcements. In the theory, short-run investors trade frequently, while long-run traders hold and trade on fundamentals. The model predicts that the reaction to an earnings announcement is shifted downward for...

This study tests whether naïve trading by individual investors, or some class of individual investors, causes post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD). Inconsistent with the individual trading hypothesis, individual investor trading fails to subsume any of the power of extreme earnings surprises...

We propose the visual attention hypothesis, that visuals in firm earnings announcements increase attention to the earnings news. We find that visuals in firm Twitter earnings announcements are associated with more retweets, consistent with greater follower engagement with announcements with...

This study investigates individual and institutional trading activities before and after earnings announcements to infer informed trading in competing firms. We find evidence for individual and institutional informed trading in competing firms before earnings announcements. Magnitude of...

This paper examines the role of financial statement comparability in shaping trading volume prior to earnings announcements. We find that the degree of delayed trading volume prior to earnings announcements is less pronounced for firms with more comparable financial statements. In addition, the...

We investigate whether investors are misled by firms that exclude particular expenses in calculating non-GAAP earnings in order to beat analysts' earnings forecasts. Our empirical analyses suggest that firms that pursue a strategy of non-GAAP reporting to beat analysts' earnings forecasts not...

We propose and test a catering theory of earnings guidance. Managers cater to reference point dependent investor preferences by issuing excessively optimistic earnings forecasts if investors' stock returns since purchase are comparably low and vice versa. As predicted by our model, earnings...

In this paper, we generalize Bernard and Thomas' (1990) "delayed response" hypothesis as an explanation of post-earnings-announcement drifts. By applying a modified version of Beveridge and Nelson's technique of decomposing a time-series process of earnings into permanent and temporary...

In this paper, we study the relationship between attention to cryptocurrency and investor reactions to earnings news. In recent years, the capital market witnessed cryptocurrency mania. Because investors have limited attention, we hypothesize that attention to cryptocurrency distracts investor...