The stock price effects of changes in dispersion of investor beliefs during earnings announcements

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作者：
Lynn Rees
Wayne Thomas
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[1] Texas A&M University,Department of Accounting, Mays School of Business
[2] University of Oklahoma,John T. Steed School of Accounting, Michael F. College of Business
来源：
Review of Accounting Studies | 2010年 / 15卷
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Dispersion of beliefs; Cost of capital; Equity call option; Market friction; Announcement returns; G14; M41;
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Existing research provides competing theories about how dispersion of investor beliefs might affect stock prices. We measure changes in dispersion of investor beliefs around earnings announcements using changes in the dispersion of individual analysts’ forecasts. We find that the 3-day market response to earnings announcements is negatively associated with changes in dispersion, consistent with the cost of capital hypothesis. The results hold after controlling for the current earnings surprise, forecast revisions of future earnings, and reported earnings relative to various earnings thresholds. Our study provides new insight about the information contained in earnings announcements that is incremental to the magnitude and timing of cash flows.
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