Information, Analysts, and Stock Return Comovement

The Review of Financial Studies (2015), Vol. 28 (11): 3153-3187.

AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper

54 Pages Posted: 14 Mar 2010 Last revised: 3 Jun 2017

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Allaudeen Hameed

National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance

Randall Morck

University of Alberta - Department of Finance and Statistical Analysis; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research

Jianfeng Shen

UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales

Bernard Yin Yeung

National University of Singapore - Business School

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Date Written: July 30, 2015

Abstract

Analysts follow disproportionally firms whose fundamentals correlate more with those of their industry peers. This coverage pattern supports models of profit-maximizing information intermediaries producing preferentially information valuable in pricing more stocks. We designate highly followed firms whose fundamentals best predict those of peer firms as bellwether firms. When analysts revise a bellwether firm’s earning forecast, it changes the prices of other firms significantly; however, revisions for firms that are less intensely followed do not change the prices of heavily followed firms. Unidirectional information spillovers explain how the more accurately priced stocks might exhibit more comovement.

Keywords: Analysts; Return comovement; Information spillover; Earnings forecasts; Bellwether firms

JEL Classification: G14

Suggested Citation

Hameed, Allaudeen and Morck, Randall K. and Shen, Jianfeng and Yeung, Bernard Yin, Information, Analysts, and Stock Return Comovement (July 30, 2015). The Review of Financial Studies (2015), Vol. 28 (11): 3153-3187., AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1569198 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1569198

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