...Sandra G. Schafhäutle; David Veenman ABSTRACT This study examines whether crowdsourced forecasts of earnings and revenues help investors unravel bias in earnings announcement news, which is commonly derived from analyst forecasts. Our results suggest that investors, on average, understand...

... of earnings announcements in constraining potential mispricing associated with firm-specific media sentiment. We show that media sentiment-driven quarterly returns (orthogonal to risk factors and fundamental news) largely reverse when public earnings are released. Our results suggest that quarterly earnings...

... ex ante decisions including contracting and information acquisition choices. I implement it on a sample of large firms’ quarterly earnings announcements, finding evidence that investors anticipate cross-sectional but not time-series variation in earnings’ asymmetry. TABLE 2 Correlation...

... information release. To shed light on this question, we exploit Reg SHO, which reduced the constraints faced by short sellers for a subsample of U.S. firms, to examine price informativeness before, during, and after earnings announcements. We show that relative to control firms, pilot firms have greater (less...

...Lynn Rees; Brady J. Twedt ABSTRACT This study examines whether firms' political activism induces bias in the media coverage of earnings announcements and how such coverage impacts markets. We infer firm political ideology based on employee political contributions and identify firm and manager...

...Charles M. C. Lee; Christina Zhu ABSTRACT We use trade-level data to examine the role of actively managed funds (AMFs) in earnings news dissemination. We find that AMFs are drawn to, and participate disproportionately more in, earnings announcements (EAs) that include bundled managerial guidance...

...Eunjee Kim; Mani Sethuraman; Thomas D. Steffen ABSTRACT We explore the role of investor relations (IR) in debt markets. Using earnings announcements as a laboratory, we examine whether, when, and to what extent IR departments help credit investors assimilate information. We find that the presence...

...Charles M. C. Lee; Edward M. Watts ABSTRACT This study examines how an increase in tick size affects algorithmic trading (AT), fundamental information acquisition (FIA), and the price discovery process around earnings announcements (EAs). Leveraging the SEC's randomized Tick Size Pilot experiment...

...Mary E. Barth; Wayne R. Landsman; Vivek Raval; Sean Wang ABSTRACT This study finds that greater asymmetric timeliness of earnings in reflecting good and bad news is associated with slower resolution of investor disagreement and uncertainty at earnings announcements. These findings indicate...

... of Mark L. DeFond. September 2016 April 2019 2020 limited attention analyst forecasts earnings announcements clustering Our study contributes to the capital market research on limited attention. Prior research examines how clustered information events (e.g., earnings...

... the sign of firms' earnings surprises and the stock returns around earnings announcements. That is, we find that firms with a relatively high probability of forecast pessimism experience significantly higher announcement returns than those with a low probability. Importantly, we show that these findings...

...James R. Frederickson; Leon Zolotoy ABSTRACT Consistent with investors having limited attention, we posit that when faced with competing earnings announcements, investors behave as if they queue the announcements based on a firm or earnings announcement attribute. We focus on two potential queuing...

... earnings announcements and compare them against equity offerings. In support of the theories' predictions, we find a positive association between the information sensitivity of securities and the likelihood of their issuance after earnings announcements. In particular, we find that clustering after...

...Mary E. Barth; Eric C. So ABSTRACT This study seeks to determine whether earnings announcements pose non-diversifiable volatility risk that commands a risk premium. We find that investors anticipate some earnings announcements to convey news that increases market return volatility and pay...

... to quantify tone, we find that plaintiffs target more optimistic statements in their lawsuits and that sued firms' earnings announcements are unusually optimistic relative to other firms experiencing similar economic circumstances. These findings are consistent with optimistic language increasing...