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Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 18-35
29th Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting 2018
52 Pages Posted: 27 Jul 2018 Last revised: 22 Feb 2021
Date Written: November 29, 2020
Abstract
We use trade-level data to examine the role of actively managed funds (AMFs) in earnings news dissemination. We find AMFs are drawn to, and participate disproportionately more in, earnings announcements (EAs) that include bundled managerial guidance. When the two pieces of news are directionally inconsistent, AMFs trade in the direction of future guidance rather than current earnings. AMFs exhibit an ability to discern, and adapt their trading to, the bias in bundled guidance. While AMF trades at EAs are generally more profitable than their non-EA trades, this result reverses when guidance bias is extreme. Overall, we find increased AMF trading during EAs leads to faster price adjustment. Collectively, these findings suggest AMFs are sophisticated processors of bundled earnings news, and their trading generally improves market price discovery.
Keywords: actively managed funds, earnings announcements, management forecasts, information processing, price efficiency, trading volume
JEL Classification: G12, G14, G23, M41
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Charles M.C. Lee
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business ( email )
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Christina Zhu (Contact Author)
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School ( email )
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