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Using monthly data from 01/1985 to 12/2012, we find that the accounting valuation-based predictor introduced in Lee … the accounting valuation-based predictor does not suffer the problem of instable in-sample and poor out … the accounting valuation-based predictor, suggesting that the accounting valuation-based predictor carries information not …
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In a seminal paper, Dechow, Sloan and Soliman (2004) develop a price-implied measure for equity duration and for its estimation they employ parsimonious but relatively crude procedures. Hence, these authors claim that improvements in procedures should lead to more accurate and useful estimates...
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This paper uses the tools of computational linguistics to analyze the qualitative part of annual reports of UK listed companies. More specifically, the frequency of words associated with different language indicators is measured and used to forecast future stock returns. We find that two of...
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Predicted stock issuers (PSIs) are firms with expected “high-investment and low-profit” (HILP) profiles that earn unusually low returns. We carefully document important features of PSI firms to provide insights on the economic mechanism behind the HILP phenomenon. Top-PSI firms are...
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the shock of the mandatory accounting change crowds out some of short-sellers’ value-relevant information in the equity … lending market. Thus, while the democratization of information from a structured accounting change may make sophisticated …
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This paper presents results from an experiment and follow-up survey examining whether stock prices influence analysts' earnings forecasts. In our experiment, prices influence analysts' forecasts when uncertainty about future earnings is high, but not when uncertainty is low. Additional analyses...
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This paper reveals that in addition to fundamental factors, the 52-week high price and recent investor sentiment play an important role in analysts' target price formation. Analysts' forecasts of short-term earnings and long-term earnings growth are shown to be important explanatory variables...
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We develop a measure of how information events impact investors' perceptions of risk that is broadly applicable and simple to implement. We derive this measure from an option-pricing model where investors anticipate an announcement that simultaneously conveys information on the announcer's...
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This paper investigates the validity and usefulness of “hybrid” valuation models. We recast the model in Ohlson and Johannesson (2016) as a hybrid of the Dividend Discount Model and an earnings-based price multiple model, and develop a new hybrid model that generalizes the Residual Income...
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Earnings growth dispersion contains information about trends in labor reallocation, unemployment change, and, ultimately, aggregate output. We find that initial macroeconomic estimates released by government statistical agencies do not fully incorporate this information. As a consequence,...
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