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Book Synopsis The Predictability of Analyst Forecast Revisions by : Michael J. Jung
Download or read book The Predictability of Analyst Forecast Revisions written by Michael J. Jung and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most prevalent forecasts of firms' long-term earnings issued by analysts are two-year-ahead earnings per share (EPS) estimates. When introduced by analysts, two-year-ahead EPS estimates set market expectations for firms' future earnings. Subsequent revisions to these estimates are highly correlated with contemporaneous changes in stock prices. We examine whether such revisions are sufficiently predictable to enable investors to earn abnormal returns on hedged portfolios. We find that analyst forecast revisions are predictable and document an implementable strategy for investors. Consistent with investors' fixation on unscaled EPS, the strategy earns positive abnormal returns using unscaled EPS revisions but not when revisions are scaled by the level of the EPS estimate or the stock price. Abnormal returns are found for firms with low analyst coverage, consistent with a greater initial mispricing from analyst optimism for firms with poorer information environments.
Book Synopsis Analyst Forecast Revisions and Market Price Discovery by : Cristi A. Gleason
Download or read book Analyst Forecast Revisions and Market Price Discovery written by Cristi A. Gleason and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We document several factors that help explain cross-sectional variations in the post-revision price drift associated with analyst forecast revisions. First, the market does not make a sufficient distinction between revisions that provide new information ("high-innovation" revisions) and revisions that merely move toward the consensus ("low-innovation" revisions). Second, the price adjustment process is faster and more complete for "celebrity" analysts (Institutional Investor All-Stars) than for more obscure yet highly accurate analysts (Wall Street Journal Earnings-Estimators). Third, controlling for other factors, the price adjustment process is faster and more complete for firms with greater analyst coverage. Finally, a substantial portion of the delayed price adjustment occurs around subsequent earnings-announcement and forecast-revision dates. Collectively, these findings show that more subtle aspects of an earnings revision signal can hinder the efficacy of market price discovery, particularly in firms with relatively low analyst coverage, and that subsequent earnings-related news events serve as catalysts in the price discovery process.
Book Synopsis The Magnitude and Timing of Analyst Forecast Response to Quarterly Earnings Announcements by : Lise Newman Graham
Download or read book The Magnitude and Timing of Analyst Forecast Response to Quarterly Earnings Announcements written by Lise Newman Graham and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Value of Analyst Forecast Revisions by : Kanyuan Huang
Download or read book The Value of Analyst Forecast Revisions written by Kanyuan Huang and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the information contained in analyst forecast revisions following earnings announcements. I find that sorting firms on aggregated forecast revisions generates a much stronger post-earnings-announcement drift than sorting on measures of earnings surprises. The strong association between aggregated forecast revisions and post-earnings-announcement returns is driven by the subsample of firms with large-magnitude earnings surprises. This result is consistent with analysts' roles in interpreting corporate earnings. Further, the mispricing is the strongest when forecast revisions contradict earnings surprises, suggesting investors have difficulties in processing contradictory signals. Lastly, I document aggregated forecast revisions are more informative when the information environment around earnings announcements is more opaque, when firms have high accruals and when investors do not pay attention to the firm. They are less informative when analysts disagree with each other. Overall, these results point to the value of analyst forecast revisions following earnings announcements.
Book Synopsis Determinants of Earnings Forecast Error, Earnings Forecast Revision and Earnings Forecast Accuracy by : Sebastian Gell
Download or read book Determinants of Earnings Forecast Error, Earnings Forecast Revision and Earnings Forecast Accuracy written by Sebastian Gell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earnings forecasts are ubiquitous in today’s financial markets. They are essential indicators of future firm performance and a starting point for firm valuation. Extremely inaccurate and overoptimistic forecasts during the most recent financial crisis have raised serious doubts regarding the reliability of such forecasts. This thesis therefore investigates new determinants of forecast errors and accuracy. In addition, new determinants of forecast revisions are examined. More specifically, the thesis answers the following questions: 1) How do analyst incentives lead to forecast errors? 2) How do changes in analyst incentives lead to forecast revisions?, and 3) What factors drive differences in forecast accuracy?
Book Synopsis Analyst Forecast Revisions and Market Price Formation by : Cristi A. Gleason
Download or read book Analyst Forecast Revisions and Market Price Formation written by Cristi A. Gleason and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We document several factors that help explain cross-sectional variations in the delayed price response to individual analyst forecast revisions. First, the market does not make a sufficient distinction between those analysts providing new information and others simply quot;herdingquot; toward the consensus. Second, the market responds more completely to quot;celebrityquot; analysts, and under-weights revisions by obscure, but highly accurate, analysts. Third, controlling for firm size, the market price adjustment is more complete for firms with wider analyst coverage. Moreover, a significant portion of the delayed price response is corrected around future earnings news events, particularly forecast revisions by other analysts. Taken together, these findings show that qualitative aspects of an earnings signal can affect the speed and efficacy of the price formation process.
Book Synopsis Information content of analysts' composite forecast revisions by : Eugene A. Imhoff, Jr. and Gerald J. Lobo
Download or read book Information content of analysts' composite forecast revisions written by Eugene A. Imhoff, Jr. and Gerald J. Lobo and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Frequency of Financial Analysts' Forecast Revisions by : Pamela S. Stuerke
Download or read book The Frequency of Financial Analysts' Forecast Revisions written by Pamela S. Stuerke and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper develops a theory of the frequency of financial analysts' forecast revisions and then tests the empirical predictions of the model. Financial analysts act as information intermediaries for firms and investors and therefore their forecast revision frequency helps explain the equilibrium of the supply of and demand for earnings predictions and assessments of firm value. The theory is based on the analyst's costs of information gathering and the profits obtained from selling the information to investors. Our analysis is conducted in two stages. In the first stage, a single-period, Kyle (1985) model is used to determine the profits generated by privately informed investors who trade on the analyst's forecast revision. The analyst is assumed to be compensated as a function of these profits. In the second stage, the analyst's optimal revision frequency to collect and sell private information is determined. We find that the analyst's optimal revision frequency is increasing in the variance of liquidity trading volume, the volatility of the underlying earnings process, and the earnings-response coefficient and decreasing in the total number of informed traders who invest in the firm and the cost of revision. These theoretical results are developed into empirical hypotheses that the frequency of analysts' forecast revisions between earnings announcements is positively associated with variability of the earnings process, average prior trading volume, and earnings response coefficients, and negatively associated with skewness of prior trading volume, after controlling for firm size and prior average daily stock price changes. These hypotheses are tested cross-sectionally and we find significant support each of the hypothesized relations.
Book Synopsis Essays on Financial Analysts' Forecasts by : Marius del Giudice Rodriguez
Download or read book Essays on Financial Analysts' Forecasts written by Marius del Giudice Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation contains three self-contained chapters dealing with specific aspects of financial analysts' earnings forecasts. After recent accounting scandals, much attention has turned to the incentives present in the career of professional financial analysts. The literature points to several reasons why financial analysts behave overoptimistically when providing their predictions. In particular, analysts may wish to maintain good relations with firm management, to please the underwriters and brokerage houses at which they are employed, and to broaden career choice. While the literature has focused more on analysts' strategic behavior in these situations, less attention has been paid to the implications these factors have on financial analysts' loss functions. The loss function dictates the criteria that analysts use in order to build their forecasts. Using a simple compensation scheme in which the sign of prediction errors affect their incomes differently, in the first chapter we examine the implications this has on their loss function. We show that depending on the contract offered, analysts have a strict preference for under-prediction or over-prediction and the size of this asymmetric behavior depends on the parameter that governs the financial analyst's preferences over wealth. This is turn affects the bias in their forecasts. Recent developments in the forecasting literature allow for the estimation of asymmetry parameters after observing data on forecasts. Moreover, they allow for a more general test of rationality once asymmetries are present. We make use of forecast data from financial analysts, provided by I/B/E/S, and present evidence of asymmetries and weak evidence against rationality. In the second chapter we study the evolution over time in the revisions to financial analysts' earnings estimates for the 30 Dow Jones firms over a 20 year period. If analysts' forecasts used information efficiently, earnings revisions should not be predictable. However, we find strong evidence that earnings revisions can in fact be predicted by means of the sign of the last revision or by using publicly available information such as short interest rates and past revisions. We propose a three-state model that accounts for the very different magnitude and persistence of positive, negative and `no change' revisions and find that this model forecasts earnings revisions significantly better than an autoregressive model. We also find that our forecasts of earnings revisions predict the actual earnings figure beyond the information contained in analysts' earnings estimates. Finally, the empirical literature on financial analysts' forecast revisions of corporate earnings has focused on past stock returns as the key determinant. The effects of macroeconomic information on forecast revisions is widely discussed, yet rarely tested in the literature. In the third chapter, we use dynamic factor analysis for large data sets to summarize a large cross-section of macroeconomic variables. The estimated factors are used as predictors of the average analyst's forecast revisions for different sectors of the economy. Our analysis suggests that factors extracted from macroeconomic variables do, indeed, improve on the current model with only past stock returns. In trying to explain what drives financial analysts' forecast revisions, the factors representing the macroeconomic environment must be considered to avoid a potential omitted variable problem. Moreover, the explanatory power and direction of such factors strongly depend on the industry in question.
Book Synopsis Firm-specific Information Environment and Analyst Forecast by : Wei Hsu (Ph.D.)
Download or read book Firm-specific Information Environment and Analyst Forecast written by Wei Hsu (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I examine how firm-specific private and public information affect analyst forecast revisions. I find that when managers easily beat (struggle to meet) the consensus forecasts in the previous quarter, financial analysts revise their earnings forecasts upward (downward). The revision magnitudes are higher when there is more private information. Similarly, I find that when managers provide upward (downward) earnings guidance, analysts revise their forecasts upward (downward) more when there is more private information. In contrast, the revision magnitudes are lower when there is more public information. Additionally, I find that the magnitudes of analysts' downward revisions increase with private information prior to the stock option grant dates. I attribute these results to the analysts' dependence on managers in gleaning relevant private information. The effect of private information is smaller for firms covered by star analysts, consistent with star analysts acting as sophisticated skeptics and being more confident in their forecasts than other analysts. Further, for well-governed firms, upward revisions for positive earnings surprises are smaller when there is more private information. This is consistent with stronger governance attenuating analysts' concerns about firms' earnings quality, which in turn increases their reliance on public earnings numbers and reduces their need to accommodate managers for private information. Finally, I find that private information is negatively associated with target price forecast accuracy, and positively associated with target price forecast optimism. These results suggest that greater information asymmetry adversely affects forecast accuracy and creates incentives for analysts to appease managers to access private information.
Book Synopsis Market Response to Revisions in Analysts' Future Years' Earnings Forecasts by : Gregory Alan Sommers
Download or read book Market Response to Revisions in Analysts' Future Years' Earnings Forecasts written by Gregory Alan Sommers and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Questions have been raised in the business press and prior academic research about future years' earnings forecast credibility, particularly long-term growth. This paper documents the market response to revisions in analysts' earnings forecasts for the next year and long-term growth (collectively "future years' earnings"). First, I show there is information content in future years' earnings forecast revisions as evidenced by changes in return volatility and volume at their release. Second, there is a direct market response to the magnitudes of the revisions in the next years' earnings forecasts and to upward revisions in long-term growth forecasts as evidenced by the coefficient relating the unexpected returns to the unexpected portion of the revisions. Finally, I find that investors use the next year earnings forecasts interpret the expected persistence of current year earnings forecast revisions. This is evidenced by increases (decreases) in the coefficient relating unexpected returns to the current year earnings forecast revisions when the next year earnings forecast revision is in the same (opposite) direction. This study documents market response to future years' earnings forecast revisions and indicates that they affect how investors respond to the revisions in current year earnings forecasts.
Book Synopsis Sophisticated and Unsophisticated Investors' Reactions to Analysts' Forecast Revisions Conditional on Factors that are Associated with Forecast Accuracy by : Sarah E. Bonner
Download or read book Sophisticated and Unsophisticated Investors' Reactions to Analysts' Forecast Revisions Conditional on Factors that are Associated with Forecast Accuracy written by Sarah E. Bonner and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study we examine differences between sophisticated and unsophisticated investors' incorporation of information about the accuracy of sell-side analysts' revisions of quarterly earnings forecasts. Our results indicate that sophisticated investors' weights on information cues associated with accuracy more closely match the weights derived from environmental models of forecast accuracy. Further, our findings suggest that sophisticated investors' strategies better reflect the costs and benefits of using accuracy cues that provide statistically significant, but economically small, explanatory power for forecast accuracy. Our evidence is consistent with sophisticated investors having greater knowledge about the factors that are related to forecast accuracy and exhibiting more adaptive cue-weighting strategies.
Book Synopsis The Informational Role of Sell-side Analysts' Forecast Horizon by : Xuan Wang
Download or read book The Informational Role of Sell-side Analysts' Forecast Horizon written by Xuan Wang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the informational role of sell-side analysts' change in forecasting horizon. I find that portfolios formed by buying stocks with large increase in analyst horizon and shorting stocks with large decrease in analyst horizon generate superior future return. Horizon change has information incremental to analyst earnings forecast and recommendation revisions, as well as firm fundamentals. Large increase in horizon mainly drives the result. I find that analysts who contribute to strong horizon increase are associated with higher forecast accuracy. This increase is likely associated with the career concerns of inexperienced analysts. The return predictability associated with analyst forecast horizon change exists in the information environment of high liquidity and low volatility, at the times when analyst forecasts are the most accurate. Moreover, analyst forecast horizon is partially related to analysts' profitability prediction and firm risk assessment, although the horizon change, the component predictable by firm fundamentals notwithstanding, is still able to predict return in the short-run. Overall, the findings reported in this dissertation support the view that sell-side analysts are important rational-information providers in the financial industry.
Book Synopsis Why Do Analysts Issue Forecast Revisions Inconsistent with Prior Stock Returns? Determinants and Consequences by : Xiaobo Dong
Download or read book Why Do Analysts Issue Forecast Revisions Inconsistent with Prior Stock Returns? Determinants and Consequences written by Xiaobo Dong and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the informativeness of analyst forecast revisions that are directionally inconsistent with prior stock price movements (sign-inconsistent revisions). Sign-inconsistent revisions represent approximately one-half of the forecast revisions from 1995 through 2010. Our tests indicate that sign-inconsistent revisions are less informative than are sign-consistent revisions. Sign-inconsistent revisions are less likely to be closer to actual earnings realizations and they generate smaller stock price reactions. We also find evidence that sign-inconsistent revisions are associated with analysts' economic incentives to generate trading volume and their behavioral limitations related to information uncertainty. These results suggest that sign-inconsistent revisions do not necessarily benefit investors.
Book Synopsis The Speed With Which Analysts Incorporate Firm-Specific and Industry Information in Their Forecasts by : Sami Keskek
Download or read book The Speed With Which Analysts Incorporate Firm-Specific and Industry Information in Their Forecasts written by Sami Keskek and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We separate analyst forecast revisions into components representing industry-wide and firm-specific news. Using the relation between analyst forecast revisions and upcoming news to estimate how completely analysts incorporate their private information in their forecasts, we show that analysts incorporate a smaller proportion of industry-wide news than firm-specific news in their forecasts, particularly when the underlying news is bad. Post-forecast-revision drift is strongly associated with the private industry-wide information that analysts withhold from their forecast revisions. Furthermore, analysts' information withholding varies predictably with their incentives. Unlike prior research that attributes post-forecast revision drift to delayed market response to news in forecast revisions, our findings suggest that the drift arises because investors are unable to anticipate the news that analysts withhold from their forecast revisions. Our study sheds light on analysts' role in conveying firm-specific and industry-wide news to investors and on the implications for post-forecast-revision drift.
Book Synopsis The Relative Impact of Financial Analyst Forecast Revisions on Security Prices by : Elizabeth A. Strock
Download or read book The Relative Impact of Financial Analyst Forecast Revisions on Security Prices written by Elizabeth A. Strock and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Does Meeting Expectations Matter? Evidence from Analyst Forecast Revisions and Share Prices by : Ron Kasznik
Download or read book Does Meeting Expectations Matter? Evidence from Analyst Forecast Revisions and Share Prices written by Ron Kasznik and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates w ...
