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The efficient market hypothesis describes an efficient market as one in which investors cannot consistently predict stock returns because prices instantly reflect all the information flowing into the market. However, return predictability has been documented in many markets. This study tests the...
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benefits to analysts of issuing optimistic forecasts — when the costs of issuing an optimistic forecast are high relative to … the benefits of doing so, optimism will be less apparent or absent. We also argue that underreaction to past forecast … past forecast errors and past changes in earnings should persist during the period of financial distress. For turnaround …
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We propose forecasting separately the three components of stock market returns: dividend yield, earnings growth, and price-earnings ratio growth. We obtain out-of-sample R-square coefficients (relative to the historical mean) of nearly 1.6% with monthly data and 16.7% with yearly data using the...
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Prior studies found that analyst forecast dispersion predicts future market returns. Some prior studies attribute this …
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