Cashflow Risk, Systematic Earnings Revisions, and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

• Main Authors: DA, Zhi, WARACHKA, Mitchell Craig
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Cashflow risk; Analyst forecast revisions; Corporate Finance; Finance and Financial Management; Portfolio and Security Analysis
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2967; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2008.12.008
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The returns of stocks are partially driven by changes in their expected cashflow. Using revisions in analyst earnings forecasts, we construct an analyst earnings beta that measures the covariance between the cashflow innovations of an asset and those of the market. A higher analyst earnings beta imp...