Do accurate earnings forecasts facilitate superior investment recommendations?

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: LOH, Roger, MIAN, G. Mujtaba
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• الموضوعات: Earnings-based valuation models; Earnings forecasts; Stock recommendations; Security analysts; Finance and Financial Management; Portfolio and Security Analysis
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2641; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/3640/viewcontent/Do_accurate_earnings_forecasts_facilitate_superior_pp_2003.pdf

We find that analysts who issue more accurate earnings forecasts also issue more profitable stock recommendations. The average factor-adjusted return associated with the recommendations of analysts in the highest accuracy quintile exceeds the corresponding return for analysts in the lowest accuracy...