Management Earnings Forecasts and Value of Analyst Forecast Revisions

Management Science, Forthcoming

45 Pages Posted: 31 Jan 2014 Last revised: 21 Feb 2014

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Yongtae Kim

Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business

Minsup Song

Sogang University

Date Written: January 29, 2014

Abstract

This study examines the stock-price reactions to analyst forecast revisions around earnings announcements to test whether pre-announcement forecasts reflect analysts’ private information or piggybacking on confounding events and news. We find that management earnings forecasts influence the timing and precision of analyst forecasts. More importantly, evidence suggests that prior studies’ finding of weaker (stronger) stock-price responses to forecast revisions in the period immediately after (before) the prior-quarter earnings announcement disappears once management earnings forecasts are controlled for. To the extent that management earnings forecasts are public disclosures, our results suggest that the importance of analysts' information discovery role documented in prior studies is likely to be overstated.

Keywords: analyst forecasts, management earnings forecasts, public disclosure

JEL Classification: G14, G29, M40, M41

Suggested Citation

Kim, Yongtae and Song, Minsup, Management Earnings Forecasts and Value of Analyst Forecast Revisions (January 29, 2014). Management Science, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2387902 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2387902

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Minsup Song

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