Analyst information production and the timing of annual earnings forecasts |
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Authors: | Sami Keskek Senyo Tse Jennifer Wu Tucker |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Accounting, Sam Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA 2. Department of Accounting, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA 3. Fisher School of Accounting, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Abstract: | We investigate whether the reputation-herding theory or the tradeoff theory explains variation in the timing of individual analysts’ forecasts. Using forecast accuracy improvements, forecast boldness, and the price impact of forecasts as measures of forecast quality, we find that in the information discovery phase that precedes an earnings announcement, earlier forecasts have higher quality than later forecasts. We also find a similar pattern in the information analysis phase that begins with the earnings announcement date. Our findings suggest that consistent with the herding theory, analysts who are more capable participate early in discovering and analyzing information, and therefore earlier forecasts in the information discovery and analysis phases are of higher quality than later forecasts in that phase. |
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