Earnings seasonality,management earnings forecasts and stock returns |
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Affiliation: | 1. College of Business, Stony Brook University, USA;2. School of Economics and Management, Southwestern Jiaotong University, China;3. Service Science and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, China |
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Abstract: | We examine whether management earnings forecasts (MEFs) help reduce the stock return seasonality associated with earnings seasonality around earnings announcements (EAs) in Chinese A-share markets. We find that firms in historically low earnings seasons outperform firms in high earnings seasons by 2.1% around MEFs. Firms in low earnings seasons also have higher trading volume and return volatility than their counterparts around EAs and MEFs. MEFs significantly reduce the ability of historical seasonal earnings rankings to negatively predict announcement returns, volume and volatility around EAs. The reduction effects are stronger when MEFs are voluntary or made closer to EAs. The evidence suggests that MEFs facilitate the correction of investors’ tendency to extrapolate earnings seasonality and its resulted stock mispricing. |
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Keywords: | Management earnings forecast Earnings seasonality Stock return seasonality Representativeness heuristic Extrapolation |
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