Sell-Side Analysts’ Responses to Mutual Fund Trading Pressure

52 Pages Posted: 23 Jan 2011 Last revised: 20 Mar 2014

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Johan Sulaeman

National University of Singapore (NUS) - Sustainable & Green Finance Institute (SGFIN); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER)

Kelsey D. Wei

University of Texas at Dallas

Date Written: March 2014

Abstract

This paper illustrates the unique role of sell-side analysts in improving market efficiency by examining their responses to mutual fund flow-driven mispricing. We find that a select group of analysts persistently issue price-correcting recommendation changes for stocks subject to flow-driven mispricing while making little change to their concurrent earnings forecasts for the underlying firms, suggesting that their recommendation changes are driven by stock mispricing rather than cash flow-related information. The responses of mispricing-sensitive analysts appear to be skill related as they also tend to make superior stock recommendations and earnings forecasts in the past. Furthermore, fire-sale stocks upgraded and fire-purchase stocks downgraded by mispricing-sensitive analysts experience less liquidity deterioration and greater price correction immediately following analyst recommendation changes. Correspondingly, they exhibit smaller return reversals in the long run. Our findings suggest that mispricing-sensitive analysts play an important role in stabilizing the financial market.

Suggested Citation

Sulaeman, Johan and Wei, Kelsey D., Sell-Side Analysts’ Responses to Mutual Fund Trading Pressure (March 2014). AFA 2013 San Diego Meetings Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1744526 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1744526

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