Three Essays on Analyst Earnings Forecast
Author : Wenjuan Xie
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Wenjuan Xie
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Jorida Papakroni
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Financial risk
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Author : Martin Meuter
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2018
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Author : Orie E. Barron
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2008
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Prior research reports seemingly conflicting evidence and interpretations concerning the relation between dispersion in analysts' earnings forecasts and stock returns. Diether et al. (2002) and Johnson (2004) find a negative relation between levels of dispersion in analysts' forecasts and future stock returns. Yet, changes in forecast dispersion are negatively associated with contemporaneous stock returns (L'Her and Suret 1996). We demonstrate that levels and changes in dispersion reflect different theoretical constructs. Changes in dispersion primarily reflect changes in information asymmetry whereas levels of dispersion primarily reflect levels of uncertainty. Further, the uncertainty component of dispersion levels reflects idiosyncratic risk that is negatively associated with future stock returns. These findings provide support for Johnson's (2004) explanation that dispersion levels reflect idiosyncratic uncertainty that increases the option value of the firm and generally refute Diether et al.'s (2002) explanation that dispersion levels reflect information asymmetry.In addition, we reconcile L'Her and Suret's (1996) findings with the findings of Johnson (2004). We find that the negative association between changes in dispersion and contemporaneous stock returns is not due to increased uncertainty but rather increased information asymmetry.
Author : Pieter Johannes De Jong
Publisher : ProQuest
Page : pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Economic forecasting
ISBN : 9780549145035
This research will concentrate on the changes in earnings forecasts, forecast accuracy and forecast dispersion for growth and value stocks after Reg FD. Each topic is presented in a separate essay. The first essay tests if growth and value stock returns respond more to forecasted earnings changes than they do to changes in earnings and whether these stock returns respond in a different fashion before and after Reg FD. This phenomenon is stronger for growth stock portfolio strategies than it is for value stock portfolios. After Reg FD, the overall impact of earnings expectations on stock returns is smaller, especially for growth stock returns. The second essay examines financial analysts' earnings forecast accuracy in value and growth stocks before and after the introduction of Reg FD. Accuracy for both stock groups (value and growth stocks) has improved after the introduction of Reg FD. The results in this essay provide additional evidence indicating that analysts did not just misinterpret available news but consciously tried to maintain relationships with managers. However, Reg FD efficiently limited these relationships between managers of growth firms and analysts so that the monetary advantage from manipulating earnings forecasts before the introduction of Reg FD no longer exists. The third essay evaluates the hypothesis stating that forecast dispersion, on both growth and value stock returns, has increased after the introduction Reg FD. However, the increased dispersion found at the second quarter of 2001 drastically dissipates at the second quarter of 2002, although value stock forecast dispersion before earnings announcement and value stock belief jumbling remain higher. The results in this essay suggest that corporate voluntary disclosure created a greater variety of opinions and, therefore, more uncertainty about value stocks. Also, value stock returns have a stronger inverse relationship with dispersion because financial analysts have become more uncertain about value firms' performance. The bigger the disagreement about a stock's value, the higher the market price relative to the true value of the stock, and the lower its future return.
Author : Niklas Blümke
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2017
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Author : Alexander Stolz
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Page : 197 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2016
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Author : Doron Avramov
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Page : 39 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2008
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This paper shows that the puzzling negative cross-sectional relation between dispersion in analysts' earnings forecasts and future stock returns is a manifestation of financial distress, as proxied by credit rating downgrades. Focusing on a sample of firms rated by Samp;P, we show that the profitability of dispersion based trading strategies concentrates in a small number of the worst-rated firms and is significant only during periods of deteriorating credit conditions. In such periods, the negative dispersion-return relation emerges as low-rated firms experience substantial price drop along with considerable increase in forecast dispersion. Moreover, even for this small universe of worst-rated firms, the dispersion-return relation is nonexistent when either the dispersion measure or return is adjusted by credit risk. The results are robust to previously proposed explanations for the dispersion effect such as short-sale constraints, illiquidity, and leverage.
Author : Alexander Stolz
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2016
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Author : Maria Chiara Iannino
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 2016
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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' forecasts after the announcement of the event. In particular, we observe an increase in forecasts' dispersion. We distinguish the two components of private and common information, and we find that asymmetric information significantly increases after the announcement of stock splits, while no change is evinced in uncertainty. While we do not observe any relationship between dispersion and future returns in our sample of stocks, we shed light on the literature on disagreement observing a negative relation between asymmetric information and both future returns and cumulative abnormal returns post-split. We conclude observing that stock splits have a stronger positive effect on future performance for shares with lower prior asymmetric information.