Download or read book Relationship between Analyst Forecast Properties and Equity Bid Ask Spreads and Depths Around Quarterly Earnings Announcements written by Kiridaran (Giri) Kanagaretnam and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the relationships between three variables which proxy for the ex-ante level of information asymmetry - forecast dispersion, forecast revision volatility, and the level of analyst coverage, and equity bid-ask spread and depth changes around quarterly earnings releases. Kim and Verrecchia, 1994 suggest that earnings releases increase the level of information asymmetry and lower the level of liquidity in the security market. Using both an OLS regression framework and a simultaneous equations model, we examine whether equity bid-ask spreads increase and depths decrease as the level of information asymmetry increases. Our results indicate that spreads are higher (relative to a non-event period) around earnings announcements when information asymmetry is more pronounced; however, depths are lower only on the day following the announcement when there is greater information asymmetry. Relative spreads have a significant positive relation with both forecast dispersion and revision volatility and a significant negative relation with analyst coverage. Relative depths have a significant negative relation with forecast dispersion and a significant positive relation with analyst coverage. Our findings indicate that the equity specialist adjusts both spreads and depths when confronting informed traders around earnings releases and that these adjustments are more pronounced when the level of information asymmetry is greater.
Download or read book Financial Analysts Earnings Forecast Dispersion and Intraday Stock Price Variability Around Quarterly Earnings Announcements written by Gerald J. Lobo and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the relationship between the dispersion of analysts' earnings forecasts and stock price variability around quarterly earnings announcements. Consistent with theoretical predictions, the empirical analysis shows that stock price variability at the time of earnings announcements is positively related to the degree of analysts' earnings forecast dispersion. The analysis also demonstrates that stock price variability is significantly greater from two days before to two days after the earnings announcement for firms ranked in the bottom third on the basis of analysts' forecast dispersion, whereas it is significantly greater from eight days prior to five days following the earnings announcement for firms in the top third. These results suggest that there is information about the earnings announcement that becomes available to at least a subset of investors prior to the earnings release. The increased level of price variability for five days following the earnings announcement suggests that market participants take different amounts of time to process the information conveyed by the earnings announcement.
Download or read book Financial Analysts Earnings Forecast Dispersion and Intraday Stock Price Variability Around Quarterly Earnings Announcements written by Samuel S. Tung and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the relationship between the dispersion of analysts? earnings forecasts and stock price variability around quarterly earnings announcements. Consistent with theoretical predictions, the empirical analysis shows that stock price variability at the time of earnings announcements is positively related to the degree of analysts? earnings forecast dispersion. The analysis also demonstrates that stock price variability is significantly greater from two days before to two days after the earnings announcement for firms ranked in the bottom third on the basis of analysts? forecast dispersion, whereas it is significantly greater from eight days prior to five days following the earnings announcement for firms in the top third. These results suggest that there is information about the earnings announcement that becomes available to at least a subset of investors prior to the earnings release. The increased level of price variability for five days following the earnings announcement suggests that market participants take different amounts of time to process the information conveyed by the earnings announcement.
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:
Download or read book Stock Price Reaction to Quarterly Earnings Announcements with Respect of Outlook Changes and Deviation to Consensus Forecast written by Benjamin Schmitt and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1.1, EBS European Business School gGmbH (Finance), language: English, abstract: Many authors have already studied about stock price reactions after earnings announcements yet, which is because of the importance of earnings announcements, in particular quarterly earnings announcements, for many investors. However, all major studies concerning this topic deal with long-term scenarios, the stock's price performance is measured for a time period of at least three quarters. Due to the fact that there are many investors, especially institutional investors such as hedge funds that trade stocks much more frequently, the existing studies are not relevant for them. This paper studies stock price reactions around quarterly earnings announcements for companies listed in Deutscher Aktienindex (DAX) or Midcap DAX (MDAX) with respect to changes of the company's full-year outlook and of earnings surprise regarding analyst consensus forecast within ten days before and after the announcement date. Hence, this paper aims to analyse short-term reaction to quarterly earnings announcements, which are of relevance for all investors, whose investment strategy is, at least partially, focussing on the short-term performance. The main target group of this analysis are therefore hedge funds and investors that run short-term strategies. Due to the fact that the widespread Event Study Methodology is focused on the long-term, it is irrelevant for this analysis.
Download or read book Trading on Corporate Earnings News Profiting from Targeted Short Term Options Positions written by John Shon and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bid ask Spreads Around Earnings Announcements written by Douglas J. Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Relationship Between Stock Price Performance and Quarterly Earnings Announcements written by Michael Nemtsev and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the reaction of stock prices to higher or lower-than-expected announcements of quarterly earnings and future earnings guidance. Expectations are proxied by mean analyst forecasts. For the analysis, we employ an event study with a 41-day event window, daily observation interval and use the market model to calculate abnormal returns. We found that higher-than-expected announcements of current earnings occur more often, but reactions to lower-than-expected announcements are stronger. In contrast, we found that announcements of future earnings guidance and reactions towards them were balanced. In a comparison between reactions to current earnings and future earnings guidance, we found that return behaviour is more strongly related to future earnings guidance.
Download or read book A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the Information Content of Annual Earnings Announcements written by Gordon Douglas Richardson and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International. This book was released on 1983 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Management Earnings Forecasts and Value of Analyst Forecast Revisions written by Yongtae Kim and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the stock-price reactions to analyst forecast revisions around earnings announcements to test whether pre-announcement forecasts reflect analysts' private information or piggybacking on confounding events and news. We find that management earnings forecasts influence the timing and precision of analyst forecasts. More importantly, evidence suggests that prior studies' finding of weaker (stronger) stock-price responses to forecast revisions in the period immediately after (before) the prior-quarter earnings announcement disappears once management earnings forecasts are controlled for. To the extent that management earnings forecasts are public disclosures, our results suggest that the importance of analysts' information discovery role documented in prior studies is likely to be overstated.
Download or read book The Impact of Intraday Timing of Earnings Announcements on the Bid Ask Spread and Depth written by Maarten Pronk and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libby, Mathieu and Robb (2002) investigate, among other things, the impact of intraday timing of earnings announcements on the bid-ask spread and depth for a sample of firms listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. They document, in a univariate setting, that the spread is relatively wider and the depth lower after announcements declared during non-trading hours than after announcements released during trading hours. This study extends their research by (a) investigating earnings announcements declared by firms traded on the NYSE or AMEX, (b) addressing this issue in a multivariate setting, (c) exploring before-open and after-close announcements separately, and (d) analyzing the impact by half-hour interval. Interestingly, my results indicate, opposite to the findings by Libby et al (2002), that the spread is relatively smaller and the depth higher after overnight announcements than after daytime announcements. These findings are robust to firm-specific factors, cross-listings, differences in the content of daytime and overnight releases, and intraday timing consistency. In addition, this effect occurs both after before-open and after-close announcements, and the analysis by half-hour interval reveals that the impact on the spread (depth) lasts for four (seven) trading half-hours.
Download or read book Three Essays on Analyst Earnings Forecast written by Wenjuan Xie and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BID ASKS AROUND EARNINGS ANNOUNCEMENTS EVIDENCE FROM THE NASDAQ NATIONAL MARKET SYSTEM written by DOUGLAS J. SKINNER and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earnings Predictability Information Asymmetry and Market Liquidity written by John Affleck-Graves and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We investigate the relation between earnings predictability, information asymmetry and the behavior of the adverse selection cost component of the bid-ask spread around quarterly earnings announcements for NASDAQ firms. While we find an increase in the adverse selection component of the bid-ask spread on the day of and the day prior to quarterly earnings announcements for firms with less predictable earnings, we find no evidence of such changes for firms with more predictable earnings. During a non-announcement period, we find that firms with relatively less predictable earnings have consistently higher total bid-ask spreads than firms with more predictable earnings. This finding suggests that firms with relatively less predictable earnings have a higher cost of equity capital than comparable firms with more predictable earning streams, ceteris paribus. Hence, earnings predictability may be a legitimate concern of managers who wish to minimize their cost of equity capital at least as it pertains to bid-ask spreads.
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.
Download or read book Business Periodicals Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 2838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information in the Tails of the Distribution of Analysts Quarterly Earnings Forecasts written by Philip B. Shane and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The business press generally reports news in quarterly earnings announcements based on the difference between actual earnings and two salient benchmarks: earnings of the same quarter in the previous year, and a consensus drawn from a distribution of forecasts by financial analysts. We evaluate the implications of a third salient benchmark: the most optimistic forecast when actual earnings exceed the consensus and the most pessimistic forecast when the consensus exceeds actual earnings. We find that considering the information in these tails of the distribution of analysts' earnings forecasts enhances the profitability of earnings-based momentum trading strategies.
