股票分析家报告的信息内容(英文)(pdf 54页)

We catalog the complete contents of All-American Analyst reports and examine the
market reaction to their release. Including the justifications supporting an analyst’s opinion
reduces, and in some models eliminates, the significance of earnings forecasts and
recommendation revisions. Analysts both provide new information and interpret previously
released information. The information in a report is most important for downgrades; target
prices and the analyst’s justifications are the only significant elements for reiterations. No
correlation exists between valuation methodology and either analyst accuracy or the market’s
reaction to a report. Our adjusted R2s are much larger than those of studies using only summary
measures.
1. Introduction
This paper investigates the association between market returns and the content of security
analysts’ reports. In addition, it provides the first detailed catalog of the elements in a typical
analyst report. An analyst’s report is the culmination of a process that includes the collection,
evaluation, and dissemination of information related to a firm’s future performance. The
majority of these reports include three key summary measures: earnings forecasts, a stock……
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