Intra-Industry Information Transfers and the Post-Earnings Announcement Drift

Intra-Industry Information Transfers and the Post-Earnings Announcement Drift
Author: Tunde Kovacs
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Total Pages: 49
Release: 2015
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This study examines the role of intra-industry information transfers in the analyst forecast-based post-earnings announcement drift. I find that subsequent same-industry-peer earnings announcements influence a firm's post-earnings announcement drift if these subsequent announcements confirm the firm's initial earnings surprise and the firm's industry exhibits ex-ante positive (common effect) intra-industry information transfers. The results suggest that underreaction to industry-specific information contributes to analyst forecast-based post-earnings announcement drift.

Intra-Industry Information Transfers

Intra-Industry Information Transfers
Author: Rebecca N. Hann
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Total Pages: 64
Release: 2019
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We examine whether there is intra-industry information transfer with respect to the second moment of returns around earnings announcements. Using implied volatility from option prices to proxy for uncertainty about firm fundamentals, we find a significantly positive association between changes in the implied volatility of each industry's first announcer and its peers around the first announcer's earnings announcement, suggesting that earnings announcements help resolve uncertainty about the value of not only the announcing firm but also its peers. This result holds after controlling for information transfer with respect to the first moment of returns. We further find that the extent of second-moment information transfer is stronger for long-duration options, when the announcer has higher earnings quality, reports positive earnings news, or is a bellwether firm and during periods of greater macroeconomic uncertainty. Our findings suggest that peers' earnings announcements represent an important disclosure that conveys timely information about industry uncertainty.

Intra-Industry Information Transfers by Earnings Announcements

Intra-Industry Information Transfers by Earnings Announcements
Author: J.K. Yun
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Release: 2000
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Intra-industry information transfers must satisfy two contemporaneous and instantaneous criteria in efficient markets. There must be an information content in an announcement as evidenced by the impact on the announcing firm's stock returns and a simultaneous pass-through impact on the returns of other non-announcing firms in the same industry. We first classify all earnings announcements by the statistical significance of the information content. This approach avoids aggregating all observations regardless of the significance of the announcement. Then we test for the transfers using an information content and pass-through framework. We also test the timing effect of announcement on information transfers using the same framework. Our results do not support information transfers or the timing effect of information transfers.

Overreaction to Intra-Industry Information Transfers?

Overreaction to Intra-Industry Information Transfers?
Author: Jacob K. Thomas
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Total Pages: 50
Release: 2007
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Prior research has documented that earnings announcements provide information not only about the announcing firm but also about other firms in the same industry. We document a stock market anomaly associated with this phenomenon of intra-industry information transfers by showing that the stock price movements of late announcers in response to earnings reported by early announcers are negatively correlated with the subsequent price responses of late announcers to their own earnings reports. Apparently, the stock market overestimates the intra-industry implications of early announcers' earnings for late announcers' earnings, and that overestimation is corrected when late announcers disclose their earnings.

Intra-Life Cycle Information Transfers

Intra-Life Cycle Information Transfers
Author: Patrick Vorst
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Total Pages: 58
Release: 2019
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We investigate the presence of a shared life cycle component in earnings and test whether the earnings of one firm are relevant for valuing other firms in the same life cycle stage. We find that firm-pairs in the same life cycle stage have greater accounting comparability and greater co-movement in their returns, operating performance, and investments than firm-pairs consisting of firms in different life cycle stages. We further document economically significant transfers of information from announcing firms to non-announcing life cycle peers around an announcing firm's earnings announcement. The magnitudes are comparable to that of intra-industry information transfers and do not depend on whether the life cycle peers are also active in the same industry. In contrast, we find that intra-industry information transfers are smaller for industry peers in different life cycle stages. Information transfers are stronger for life cycle peers that have greater (transient) institutional cross-holdings, suggesting that institutional trading is an important mechanism by which life cycle information spills over. Overall, this study provides insight into the factors that shape a firm's earnings generation process and investors' use of such factors. Furthermore, this study complements prior literature on firm life cycle by providing additional evidence on the importance of life cycle in the valuation process.

Information Transfer and Conference Calls

Information Transfer and Conference Calls
Author: Francois Brochet
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Total Pages: 62
Release: 2018
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A long-standing literature documents the existence of intra-industry capital market co-movements around earnings releases, yet the dynamics of these information transfers remain largely unexplored. We provide evidence on both the sources and the channels of information transfers by separating two distinct events within the reporting window, and by exploring potential mechanisms of information flows. First, we examine the intra-industry information transfer associated with quarterly earnings conference calls, using intra-day data to decouple their effects from those of the associated earnings announcements. We document that the co-movement of absolute and signed stock returns over the conference call windows of announcing firms and their industry peers are statistically and economically larger than the co-movement over the corresponding earnings announcement windows. Turning to mechanisms, we find that shared analyst coverage, coverage by analysts providing industry recommendations, shared institutional ownership, and joint financial press mentions are each individually and incrementally associated with higher rate of information transfer over both the earnings announcement and conference call windows. Additional analyses reveal that information transfer occurs both to peers that have already announced and those that are yet to announce, and that peer mentions and macroeconomic discussions are both significant contributors to the conference call information transfers.