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Ricks [1982] found that stock returns near the earnings disclosure dates of 1974 LIFO adopters were negative and significantly lower than returns near the earnings disclosure dates of firms not using LIFO.Given that firms adopting LIFO in 1974 were voluntarily switching to an accounting method...
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This study of the post – earnings announcement drift and the value – glamour anomaly finds that value stocks have greater information uncertainty, exhibit more-muted initial market reactions to earnings surprises, and have better (more positive or less negative) post – earnings...
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Theory suggests that the informativeness of price at the time of an earnings announcement increases with the number of informed traders who possess superior information to process news from firm disclosures (Kyle 1985; Admati and Pfleiderer 1988; Kim and Verrecchia 1994). In this paper, we investigate...
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inconsistencies between recommendation and implied return would be explained by analysts' incentives to bias the stock recommendation …
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. Consistent with the literature, we find that analysts revise their recommendations more frequently on days with jumps in stock … jumps - which are less likely influenced by confounding corporate events - we still find that these revisions contain … significant price information. The added value is most pronounced for upgrades following positive jumps, with an extra 4 …
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Using data from the Stockholm Stock Exchange we study the value added by (as distinct from the abnormal returns to) analysts' recommendations. Recommending brokers' clients trade profitably around positive recommendations at the expense of other brokers' clients. Significant profits come from...
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We explore analysts' earnings forecast data to improve upon one popular disagreement measure — the analyst forecast dispersion measure — proposed by Diether, Malloy, and Scherbina (2002). Our analysis suggests that changes in the standard deviations of forecasted earnings can work as a...
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This paper is an empirical investigation of the relation between the dispersion on analysts' earnings forecasts and the future performance following a change in the nominal price of shares. On a sample of US splits occurred from 1993 to 2013, we observe a change in the distribution of analysts'...
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