Download or read book The Information Content of a Preliminary Earnings Announcement for Large and Small Firms written by Diane Keane and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Content of Earnings Announcements written by Christine X. Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study after-hours trading (AHT), price contributions, and price discovery following quarterly earnings announcements released outside of the normal trading hours. For Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 index stocks from 2004-2008, AHT is heightened on announcement days. A significant portion of the price change and price discovery occurs immediately after the earnings releases. Prices in AHT show a large degree of informational efficiency, further demonstrating the importance of price discovery in AHT. We also provide evidence suggesting that firms prefer after-hours earnings announcements, as trades are mainly from informed traders, and those trades are relied upon to convey information to the general public.
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 The Impact of Announcement Timing on the Informativeness of Earnings and Dividends written by Lawrence D. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We relate the informativeness of earnings and dividend announcements to their timing relative to the fiscal quarter end to which the earnings pertain. Evidence is provided that the information content of earnings decreases as the timing of its announcement relative to the fiscal quarter end increases, and that such information erosion is more pronounced for smaller firms. Evidence is also provided that the information content of dividend announcements increases as its timing relative to the fiscal quarter end increases, and that such information enhancement is relatively more pronounced for larger firms. The results suggest that preannouncement information precision and announced information precision have offsetting effects on the informativeness of financial information, and that the nature of the offset depends on the type of information and firm size. More specifically, the predisclosure information effect is more pronounced for earnings and small firms, whereas the announced (new) information effect is more pronounced for dividends and large firms.
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 The Changing Nature of Trading Volume Reactions to Earnings Announcements written by Richard A. Schneible Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We document a change in the nature of trading volume reactions to quarterly earnings announcements over the time period 1976-2005. Consistent with Landsman and Maydew (2002), we find that the magnitude of abnormal trading volume around quarterly earnings announcements has increased over time and that this increase is greater for large firms than small firms. We show, however, that this trend has reversed the negative relation between firm size and trading volume documented by Bamber (1987). Applying insights from recent trading volume theory, we predict and provide evidence that the increase in abnormal trading volume across time and firm size is due to increases in pre-announcement private information. Specifically, we show that the component of abnormal trading volume associated with price change, which theory suggests reflects pre-announcement private information, is increasing across time and firm size. Our results suggest that investors are motivated to acquire private information prior to earnings announcements about firms that have relatively high quality information environments. Thus, our results have implications for policies aimed at reducing information asymmetry between investors by increasing public disclosure.
Download or read book Line of Business Reporting the Marginal Information Content of Earnings Announcements and the Accuracy of Analyst Earnings Forecasts written by Shu Yeh and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Numbers written by Angela K. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earnings press releases are the primary mechanism by which managers announce quarterly earnings and make other concurrent disclosures to investors and other stakeholders. A largely unexplored element of earnings press releases is the language that managers use throughout the press release, which we argue provides a unifying framework for these disclosures and an opportunity for managers to signal, both directly and more subtly, their expectations about future performance. We analyze the full texts of approximately 23,000 earnings press releases issued between 1998 and 2003 and examine whether the language used in these earnings press releases provides a signal about expected future firm performance and whether the market responds to this signal. Using categories derived from linguistic theory, we count words characterized as optimistic and pessimistic and construct a measure of managers' net optimistic language for each earnings press release. We find that this measure is positively associated with future ROA and generates a significant market response in a short window around the earnings announcement date. We include in our models the earnings surprise as well as other quantifiable, concurrent disclosures identified in prior research as associated with the market's reaction to earnings press releases. Our results support the premise that earnings press release language provides a signal regarding managers' future earnings expectations to the market and that the market responds to this signal. We interpret our evidence to suggest that managers use language in earnings press releases to communicate credible information about expected future firm performance.
Download or read book The Market Reaction to 10 K and 10 Q Filings to Subsequent Wall Street Journal Earnings Announcements written by Earl Kay Stice and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pre Disclosure Information Asymmetry and Information Content as a Means of Explaining Trading Volume Responses to Interim Earnings Announcements in a Thinly Traded Stock Market written by Markku J. Vieru and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study contains empirical findings regarding the effect of interim earnings announcements on investors' trading behavior. The aim of the paper is to empirically investigate whether the trading volume reaction to an interim earnings announcement is associated with the information content of the announcement and the existence of pre-disclosure information asymmetry in the Finnish stock market. The reason for using Finnish data is to establish whether findings from the US in respect of explaining volume inducement around an information event also hold in thin security markets. Pre-disclosure information asymmetry is proxied by the range in analysts' earnings forecasts. Information content is proxied by beta-adjusted returns and the divergence in reported EPS from analysts' mean EPS forecast. The data consist of 118 interim earnings announcements released by 21 firms traded on the Helsinki Stock Exchange (HSE) between 1992 and 1996. It was found that the trading volume reaction is positively associated with the information content of an announcement and also to some extent with the level of pre-disclosure information asymmetry. These results are in line with Kim and Verrecchia's theoretical trading volume proposition and with empirical findings in the US markets. Thus, previous findings produced in more developed stock markets with respect to volume generation around earnings announcements also seem to be applicable to thin markets. However, the significance levels are lower than in similar US studies and the association between positive and negative news is slightly asymmetric.
Download or read book Firm Prominence and the Differential Information Content of Quarterly Earnings Announcements written by Wiliam Kross and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Differential Information Content of Earnings Announcements written by Charles Edward Wasley and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Drives the Increased Informativeness of Earnings Announcements Over Time written by Daniel W. Collins and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landsman and Maydew (2002) document that the information content of earnings announcements has increased over the past three decades, and Francis, Schipper, and Vincent (2002) conclude that expanded concurrent disclosures in firms' earnings announcements, especially the inclusion of detailed income statements, explain this increase. We posit and find that the temporal increase in the intensity of the market's reaction to Street earnings offers a competing explanation for the Landsman and Maydew finding. We also find that expanded concurrent disclosure of GAAP-based information contributes to the temporal increase in the information content of earnings announcements. However, unlike Francis et al., we find that the temporal increase in concurrent balance sheet and cash flow statement information dominates concurrent income statement information once we control for Street earnings.
Download or read book The Handbook of Equity Market Anomalies written by Leonard Zacks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment pioneer Len Zacks presents the latest academic research on how to beat the market using equity anomalies The Handbook of Equity Market Anomalies organizes and summarizes research carried out by hundreds of finance and accounting professors over the last twenty years to identify and measure equity market inefficiencies and provides self-directed individual investors with a framework for incorporating the results of this research into their own investment processes. Edited by Len Zacks, CEO of Zacks Investment Research, and written by leading professors who have performed groundbreaking research on specific anomalies, this book succinctly summarizes the most important anomalies that savvy investors have used for decades to beat the market. Some of the anomalies addressed include the accrual anomaly, net stock anomalies, fundamental anomalies, estimate revisions, changes in and levels of broker recommendations, earnings-per-share surprises, insider trading, price momentum and technical analysis, value and size anomalies, and several seasonal anomalies. This reliable resource also provides insights on how to best use the various anomalies in both market neutral and in long investor portfolios. A treasure trove of investment research and wisdom, the book will save you literally thousands of hours by distilling the essence of twenty years of academic research into eleven clear chapters and providing the framework and conviction to develop market-beating strategies. Strips the academic jargon from the research and highlights the actual returns generated by the anomalies, and documented in the academic literature Provides a theoretical framework within which to understand the concepts of risk adjusted returns and market inefficiencies Anomalies are selected by Len Zacks, a pioneer in the field of investing As the founder of Zacks Investment Research, Len Zacks pioneered the concept of the earnings-per-share surprise in 1982 and developed the Zacks Rank, one of the first anomaly-based stock selection tools. Today, his firm manages U.S. equities for individual and institutional investors and provides investment software and investment data to all types of investors. Now, with his new book, he shows you what it takes to build a quant process to outperform an index based on academically documented market inefficiencies and anomalies.
Download or read book A Survey on the Dissemination of Earnings Information by Large Firms written by Randy D. Jorgensen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of quarterly earnings announcements by firms typically focus on the quality of the announcement or the financial impact of the announcement. Few studies focus on the method and timing of announcements of quarterly earnings, a question of increased interest since the enactment of the SEC's Regulation Fair Disclosure (Regulation FD). Regulation FD requires that material information about a company be disseminated widely and simultaneously to the public. A survey of the Fortune 500 firms to investigate how they communicate quarterly earnings data to the investment community both before and after Regulation FD indicates that most respondents have broadened their use of conference calls. Post-Regulation FD, a significant majority of Fortune 500 companies seek to reach a wider audience by broadcasting their calls via both telephone and Internet; telephone had been the primary medium before Regulation FD. While more firm members participate in conference calls, and rebroadcasts of the calls are more available outside the firm, access to the post-call question-and-answer period remains restricted.
Download or read book Preliminary Report on Business Reporting Requirements of the Federal Government written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Line of Business Reporting the Marginal Information Content of Earnings Announcements and the Accuracy of Analyst Earnings Forecasts written by Shu Yeh and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
