Liquidity and the Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift

36 Pages Posted: 18 May 2009

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Tarun Chordia

Emory University - Department of Finance

Amit Goyal

University of Lausanne; Swiss Finance Institute

Gil Sadka

University of Texas at Dallas

Ronnie Sadka

Boston College - Carroll School of Management

Lakshmanan Shivakumar

London Business School

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Date Written: May 12, 2009

Abstract

The post-earnings-announcement drift is a longstanding anomaly that conflicts with market efficiency. This study documents that the post-earnings-announcement drift occurs mainly in highly illiquid stocks. A trading strategy that goes long high-earnings-surprise stocks and short low-earnings-surprise stocks provides a monthly value-weighted return of 0.04 percent in the most liquid stocks and 2.43 percent in the most illiquid stocks. The illiquid stocks have high trading costs and high market impact costs. By using a multitude of estimates, the study finds that transaction costs account for 70-100 percent of the paper profits from a long-short strategy designed to exploit the earnings momentum anomaly.

Keywords: Research Sources, Equity Investments, Technical Analysis, Investment Theory, Efficient Market Theory, Portfolio Management, Equity Strategies

JEL Classification: G40

Suggested Citation

Chordia, Tarun and Goyal, Amit and Sadka, Gil and Sadka, Ronnie and Shivakumar, Lakshmanan, Liquidity and the Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift (May 12, 2009). Financial Analysts Journal, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1403342

Tarun Chordia

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Amit Goyal

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Gil Sadka

University of Texas at Dallas ( email )

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Ronnie Sadka

Boston College - Carroll School of Management ( email )

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Lakshmanan Shivakumar (Contact Author)

London Business School ( email )

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