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.

The Role of Analysts in Intra-Industry Information Transfer

The Role of Analysts in Intra-Industry Information Transfer
Author: Gilles Hilary
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Total Pages: 51
Release: 2013
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When a firm issues a management forecast, analysts who have observed more forecasts from this firm since covering it (i.e., have more MF-experience) subsequently improve their own accuracy more and provide timelier earnings forecasts for other (non-issuing) firms in the same industry. We also find that, subsequent to a management forecast, investors are more responsive to forecast revisions for non-issuing firms made by analysts with more MF-experience. Further tests suggest that our results are not explained by endogeneity in firm coverage.

Positive and Negative Information Transfers from Management Forecasts

Positive and Negative Information Transfers from Management Forecasts
Author: Yongtae Kim
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Release: 2009
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We examine positive and negative information transfers associated with management earnings and revenue forecasts. Positive information transfers are due to industry commonalities whereas negative information transfers are caused by competitive shifts. We argue that positive and negative intra-industry information transfers offset each other and lead to an overall finding of no information transfers even though they exist. We also conjecture that the type of information transfers from the same management forecast can be positive or negative based on the characteristics of the information receiver. We hypothesize positive information transfers to non-rival firms and negative information transfers to rivals. Consistent with our prediction, we find negative (positive) information transfers between forecasting firms and non-forecasting rival (non-rival) firms in the same industry. Through analyses using competitors identified by Hoover's and 10-K reports, we show more general evidence of negative information transfers to rival firms.

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.

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.