In this paper we test the predictive power of abnormal inventory growth to forecast retailers’ earnings. We demonstrate … this information in analysts’ forecasts would improve their forecast accuracy. This improvement can be as much as 15 …

empirical study has investigated the nexus between the analyst forecast dispersion (AFD) and excess returns surrounding stock …

earnings forecasters, we see that small adjustments to the model forecasts lead to more forecast accuracy. Based on past track …

who follow the firms' major customers incorporate the customers' earnings news into their forecast revisions for the … their earnings forecasts for the supplier firms. Fourth, the improvement in forecast accuracy attributed to following a firm …

superior forecasting ability systematically time their forecast revisions later in the fiscal quarter. We then examine whether … this superior ability persists after controlling for this timing advantage by using relative forecast error, a measure that … largely eliminates the timing advantage of recent forecasts. Using a sample of quarterly earnings forecast revisions over the …

/Value: Whilst the literature has examined analysts' earnings forecast properties in a number of contexts that change forecast … complexity, this paper is the first to examine an extensive range of forecast properties in the context of CEO changes …

Measures of a firm's financial strength forecast stock returns. The relation between financial condition and future …

the average firm is found to be very well able to correctly forecast its own future key figures. I suggest that public …

By decomposing analysts' forecast errors into common and idiosyncratic components, we develop a simple model aimed at … explaining the relationship between forecast uncertainty and analyst dispersion. Under this framework, we propose a new measure … of earnings forecast uncertainty as the sum of dispersion among analysts and the variance of mean forecast errors …