Did COVID-19 Pandemic Affect the Sentiments expressed in the Financial Statements? - A study of New Age Technology and Nifty IT Firms

79 Pages Posted: 23 Aug 2021 Last revised: 8 Apr 2022

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Anand Shah

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Anu Bahri

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Date Written: August 15, 2021

Abstract

This paper investigates the change in the sentiments expressed in the annual reports/10-K filings of the firms in the New Age Technology Sectoral Indices and Nifty IT Index during COVID -19 Pandemic.

We use tf.idf Weighted and simple proportion methodologies, and eight word lists from Loughran and McDonald 2020 dictionary – negative, positive, uncertainty, litigious, strong modal, weak modal, constraining and complexity; and negative and positive word lists from General Inquirer (Psychological Harvard IV), Henry 2008 and QDAP dictionaries to measure the change in the sentiments expressed in the annual reports.

Friedman and post-hoc Nemenyi multiple comparison tests found significant difference in the FY 20-21 Net Sentiment distributions of Robotics, Cybersecurity, Drones and Space indices.

Keywords: textual analysis; sentiment analysis; COVID-19; Form 10-K; financial constraints; complexity; Industry 4.0

JEL Classification: C81; D82; D83; G14; G18; G30; M40; M41

Suggested Citation

Shah, Anand and Bahri, Anu, Did COVID-19 Pandemic Affect the Sentiments expressed in the Financial Statements? - A study of New Age Technology and Nifty IT Firms (August 15, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3905833 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3905833

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