Delayed Security Price Adjustments to Financial Analysts' Forecasts of Annual Earnings

2001 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter T. Elgers ◽  
May H. Lo ◽  
Ray J. Pfeiffer
Keyword(s):  
Financial Analysts ◽  
Earnings Forecasts ◽  
Security Market ◽  
Analyst Coverage ◽  
Future Earnings ◽  
Price Response ◽  
Portfolio Returns ◽  
Price Adjustments ◽  
Security Price ◽  
Annual Earnings

This paper documents that the weighting of analysts' annual earnings forecasts implicit in security prices is lower than the historical relation between financial analysts' forecasts and realized earnings. Short positions in securities in the bottom decile and long positions in the top decile of the crosssectional distribution of analysts' early-in-the-year earnings forecasts generate significant hedge-portfolio returns in the year after portfolio formation. This delayed price response is more pronounced for firms with relatively low analyst coverage, consistent with the premise that low financial analyst coverage is associated with a variety of factors that impede the information efficiency of the security market. The hedge-portfolio returns concentrate in the months of subsequent quarterly earnings announcements, suggesting that the delayed security price adjustments reflect the market's failure to incorporate information in analysts' forecasts about future earnings, rather than deficiencies in our conditional expectations of security returns.

scholarly journals Earnings forecasts of female CEOs: quality and consequences

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Francoeur ◽  
Yuntian Li ◽  
Zvi Singer ◽  
Jing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Financial Analysts ◽  
Earnings Forecasts ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Analyst Coverage ◽  
Coverage Gap ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Female Ceos ◽  
Alternative Research ◽  
Increased Pressure

AbstractThis study examines the voluntary disclosure of earnings forecasts by female CEOs. We find that in the backdrop of increased pressure to perform from investors and other stakeholders, female CEOs tend to issue more earnings forecasts than male CEOs, and those forecasts are more accurate. We also find that while financial analysts generally prefer to follow companies headed by male CEOs, female CEOs’ efforts to issue accurate earnings forecasts pay off, as these efforts help them close the analyst coverage gap. We provide complementary evidence on the disclosure efforts of female CEOs with regard to updates to the forecast and the 10-K report. Lastly, we show that financial analysts rely more on the earnings forecasts of female CEOs, possibly because they recognize female CEOs’ superior forecasting quality. Our results are robust to the use of alternative research designs, including difference-in-difference, propensity score matching, and entropy balancing. Overall, our study documents gender differences in voluntary disclosure by senior management.

Do Stock Prices Influence Analysts' Earnings Forecasts?

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Miller ◽  
Lisa M. Sedor
Keyword(s):  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Financial Analysts ◽  
Earnings Forecasts ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Earnings Forecast ◽  
Future Earnings ◽  
Management Earnings Forecast ◽  
Stock Price Reaction ◽  
Made In

ABSTRACT This study uses an experiment with professional financial analysts to examine whether stock prices influence analysts' earnings forecasts. The findings indicate that analysts' revised forecasts made in response to a management earnings forecast differ depending on the level of uncertainty communicated by management's guidance and the stock price reaction to it. Lower (higher) stock price leads to lower (higher) analysts' forecasts when uncertainty about future earnings is high, but not when uncertainty about future earnings is low. Overall, the evidence suggests that the documented association between prior security returns and analysts' earnings forecasts is due, at least in part, to the influence of stock price on analysts' earnings forecasts. Data Availability: Contact the authors.

Concurrent Earnings Announcements and Analysts' Information Production

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Driskill ◽  
Marcus P. Kirk ◽  
Jennifer Wu Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Announcements ◽  
Financial Analysts ◽  
Earnings Forecasts ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Conference Calls ◽  
Stock Recommendations ◽  
Rich Information ◽  
Sample Firm ◽  
Jel Classifications

ABSTRACT We examine whether financial analysts are subject to limited attention. We find that when analysts have another firm in their coverage portfolio announcing earnings on the same day as the sample firm (a “concurrent announcement”), they are less likely to issue timely earnings forecasts for the sample firm's subsequent quarter than analysts without a concurrent announcement. Among the analysts who issue timely earnings forecasts, the thoroughness of their work decreases as their number of concurrent announcements increases. In addition, analysts are more sluggish in providing stock recommendations and less likely to ask questions in earnings conference calls as their number of concurrent announcements increases. Moreover, when analysts face concurrent announcements, they tend to allocate their limited attention to firms that already have rich information environments, leaving behind firms in need of attention. Overall, our evidence suggests that even financial analysts, who serve as information specialists, are subject to limited attention. JEL Classifications: G10; G11; G17; G14. Data Availability: Data are publicly available from the sources identified in the paper.

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