Strategic Deviation and Stock Return Synchronicity

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-194
Author(s):  
Kangtao Ye ◽  
Jenny Xinjiao Guan ◽  
Bo Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Stock Return ◽  
Price Formation ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Strategic Positioning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Industry Peers

We examine the effect of strategic deviation on the relative amount of firm-specific information incorporated into stock prices, measured by stock return synchronicity. Strategic deviation is conceptualized as the extent to which the pattern of a firm’s resource allocation deviates from that of its industry peers. We find that strategic deviation is negatively associated with stock return synchronicity. Using a path analysis, we document that firms following deviant strategy issue more frequent managerial forecasts and have a higher level of block ownership than nondeviant firms, and that both managerial forecasts and block ownership partially mediate the relationship between strategic deviation and stock return synchronicity. Our study contributes to accounting and finance literature by documenting the role of firms’ strategic positioning in the stock price-formation process.

Stock Price Jumps and Cross-Sectional Return Predictability

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 1519-1544 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Jiang ◽  
Tong Yao
Keyword(s):  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Stock Return ◽  
Return Predictability ◽  
Value Premium ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stock Return Predictability ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Return Dynamics

AbstractWe identify large discontinuous changes, known as jumps, in daily stock prices and explore the role of jumps in cross-sectional stock return predictability. Our results show that small and illiquid stocks have higher jump returns to the extent that cross-sectional differences in jumps fully account for the size and illiquidity effects. Based on value-weighted portfolios, jumps also account for the value premium. On the other hand, jumps are not the cause of momentum or net share issue effects. The findings of our study shed new light on stock return dynamics and present challenges to conventional explanations of stock return predictability.

scholarly journals Financial Markets’ Governance, Transparency and Informational Efficiency: Role of IfRS Norms, Auditors and Financial Analysts

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Imen Lamiri ◽  
Adel Boubaker
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Financial Analysts ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Informational Efficiency

<p>This article explores the informational role of three essential modern financial markets actors such IFRS norms, the Big”4” and the financial analysts for a panel of emergent and developed countries during the period from 2001 to 2010. We hypothesis that these mechanisms help improving the quality of specific information incorporated into stock prices measured by the stock price synchronicity (SPS). The main result is that both financial analyst’s coverage and IFRS adoption's effects seem to be stronger for emerging than developed markets. The results also show a negative relationship between auditors’ opinion and coefficient of determination (R<sup>2</sup>).</p>

scholarly journals Correspondence between Monetary Policies and Stock Prices

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 2809-2811
Keyword(s):  
Money Supply ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Stock Return ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Monetary Policies ◽  
Monthly Data ◽  
Repo Rate ◽  
The Relationship

Money supply in an economy plays a vital role in determining the prices of stocks. This study uses repo rate and reverse repo rate as a proxy for money supply and the stock return from CNX Nifty as the dependant variable. This study uses monthly data for 10 years. The study is aimed at determining the relationship between repo rate, reverse repo rate and stock price return. The study identifies that repo rate and reverse repo rate are significantly affecting he stock return.

scholarly journals Earnings Surprise, Portfolio Inertia and Stock Price Volatility

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-320
Author(s):  
Shunwu Huang ◽  
Wang Chang ◽  
Lan Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Stock Price Volatility ◽  
Earnings Surprise ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractFrom the perspective of the mediation effect, this paper investigates whether institutional investors adjust their portfolios according to the listed companies earnings surprise. We find that the portfolio adjustments by institutional investors exert the mediation effect on the relationship between earnings surprise and stock price volatility. Institutional investors actively manage their portfolios in the rising market, which induces the stock price volatility; while they less adjust their portfolio in the falling market, the volatility declines. This paper helps understand the role of institutional investors in the fluctuation of stock prices, and provides a new basis for decision making of regulatory administration.

scholarly journals Modelling the Behaviour of Technicians and Fundamentalists in the Shanghai Stock Market

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imad A. Moosa ◽  
Larry CF Li
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Price Formation ◽  
Chinese Stock Market ◽  
Price Effect ◽  
Daily Data ◽  
The Government

This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of fundamentalists and technicians in the Chinese stock market. Three econometric models are used to differentiate the stock price effect between the actions of traders who act on the basis of fundamental analysis and those acting on the basis of technical analysis. The models are estimated using randomly selected monthly and daily data on the stock prices of one hundred companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The results reveal that both fundamentalists and technicians have roles to play in stock price formation, although technicians appear to play a more important role. This result holds even if the government intervention is allowed for. Some explanations are presented for the dominance of technicians.  

Auditor Tenure and Stock Price Idiosyncratic Volatility: The Moderating Role of Industry Specialization

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lixin (Nancy) Su ◽  
Xuezhou (Rachel) Zhao ◽  
Gaoguang (Stephen) Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Idiosyncratic Volatility ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Industry Specialization ◽  
Auditor Tenure ◽  
Moderating Role

SUMMARY In this study, we examine how investors perceive the quality of financial reports audited by auditors with long tenure. We argue that auditor tenure is an important characteristic that influences the effectiveness of audits and thus affects the amount of firm-specific information that is included in stock prices by investors. Based on a sample of U.S. firms from 2003 to 2012, we show that longer tenure is associated with higher stock price idiosyncratic volatility. Further analyses reveal that this effect is only present for industry-specialist auditors, suggesting that the effect of tenure on idiosyncratic volatility is contingent on industry expertise. Our results have a number of implications for the financial markets and the accounting and auditing professions.

Analysts' Information Acquisition and Stock Price Synchronicity: A Regulatory Perspective from China

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Jiang ◽  
Donghua Zhou ◽  
Joseph H. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Insider Trading ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Stock Price Synchronicity ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Information Advantage ◽  
Private Information Acquisition

SYNOPSIS Against the backdrop of the Chinese Directive 40 (China's Reg FD) issued in 2007 as an attempt to curb insider trading and to level the information playing field, this study investigates whether analysts' private information acquisition influences the extent to which firm-specific information is impounded into stock prices, i.e., stock price synchronicity, and how the restrictions on selective disclosures imposed by Directive 40 have shaped the relationship between analyst information acquisition and synchronicity. Using a pre-Directive 40 sample, we show that synchronicity is negatively related to analysts' private information acquisition, which provides support for the “information advantage” argument of analysts' information production. However, the ability of analysts' private information acquisition in improving firm-specific information incorporated into stock price is mitigated post-Directive 40 due to a restriction on selective disclosures and/or private communication. Moreover, we find that this regulatory impact varies for firms being followed by affiliated analysts versus non-affiliated analysts. JEL Classifications: G14; G15; G17; G18.

scholarly journals The Role of Exchange Rates in the Stock Price Development of Chemical Companies in the Visegrad Four Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Jana Šimáková ◽  
Nikola Rusková
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Stock Exchanges ◽  
The Exchange Rate ◽  
Chemical Companies ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the effect of exchange rates on the stock prices of companies in the chemical industry listed on the stock exchanges in the Visegrad Four countries. The empirical analysis was performed from September 2003 to June 2016 on companies from the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industry. The effect of the exchange rate on stock prices is analyzed using Jorion’s approach on monthly data. In contrast to the selected petrochemical companies, the pharmaceutical companies did not use any hedging instruments in the tested period. The effect of the exchange rate on the stock price was proved only in the case of companies from the pharmaceutical industry. This suggests that exchange rate risk could be eliminated by using hedging instruments.

scholarly journals FACTORS AFFECTING OPERATING CASH FLOW TO STOCK RETURN THROUGH STOCK PRICE

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aprih . Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Cash Flow ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Stock Return ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Operating Cash Flow

Abstract : Companies need funds in order to carry out operations such as the financing of production activities, pay employees, pay other expenses related to the operation of the company. One way to obtain these funds is to attract investors to invest in companies in the form of stock, but in making this investment is certainly not easy for investors, because investors need consideration beforehand to find out how the company's performance. The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze the effect of operating cash flow to stock return through stock price at companies listed on the Stock Exchange Year 2012-2015. The data used in this study dala are secondary data from the financial statements of companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2012 - 2015. The data are in the form of financial statements can be obtained from the Indonesian Capital Market Directory (ICMD), the IDX website www.idx.co. id as well as from various other sources to support this research. The population in this research is manufacturing companies listed on the Stock Exchange the period 2012 - 2015. The samples taken by the sampling technique used purposive sampling.From the test results and analysis of the data it can be concluded that operating cash flow directly and indirectly has no effect on stock returns through stock prices showed no significant results. Keywords :  Operating Cash Flow, Stock Price, Stocks Return

scholarly journals Systematic illiquidity, characteristic illiquidity, and stock returns: Timeseries analysis

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Soltane et al. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Systematic Risk ◽  
Timeseries Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

The objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between illiquidity and stock prices on the Tunisian stock exchange. While previous researches tended to focus on one form of illiquidity to examine this relationship, our study unifies three forms of illiquidity at the same time. Indeed, we simultaneously consider illiquidity as systematic risk, as a characteristic of the market, and as a characteristic of the stock. The aggregate illiquidity of the market is the average of individual stock illiquidity. The illiquidity risk is the sensitivity of the stock price to illiquidity shocks. Shocks of market illiquidity are estimated by the innovations in the expected market illiquidity. Results show that investors on the Tunisian stock exchange do not require higher returns when they expect a rise of market illiquidity, whereas investors on U.S markets are compensated for higher expected market illiquidity. In addition, shocks of market illiquidity provoke a fall in stock prices of small caps, while large caps are not sensitive to market illiquidity shocks. This differs slightly from results based on U.S. data where illiquidity shocks reduce all stock prices but most notably those of small caps. Robustness tests validate our findings. Our results are consistent with previous studies which reported that the “zero-return” ratio predicts significantly the return-illiquidity relationship on emerging markets.

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