specification choices used in recent studies that implement ML models to forecast earnings by exhaustively comparing 3,024 models …’ forecasts are likely to remain the preferred earnings forecast in situations where ML superiority is negligible: calculating …

better understand how financial analysts forecast earnings. We focus on forecasts for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs … regression analysis finds that the severity of the pandemic increases analysts' forecast error and dispersion. Government … forecast error rises by more, for REITs, when focusing on Hospitality and Industrial properties, and dispersion rises by more …