摘要(英) |
This study examines whether the short-term and long-term market reactions to earnings surprises (SUE) can be altered by different styles of SUE. Eight SUE models, including time-series based SUE models and analyst forecast based SUE models, are implemented into SUE calculation. Correlations among eight models show that, though sharing some common information contents, each model has a certain amount of information contents which are not related to others. We find that the short-term market reactions using analyst forecast based SUE models, especially the model using analyst mean as expected earnings, are higher than those using time-series based SUE models. In terms of long-term market reaction, most of post-earnings-announcement drifts are from the winner portfolio and more significant using time-series based SUE models, indicating that the underreaction to SUE is relatively smaller when using analyst forecast based SUE model. In addition, although analyst forecast based SUE explains more, time-series based SUE and analyst forecast based SUE both have substantial abilities to anticipate future stock returns. Overall, the delayed market reactions are altered by different definitions of SUE but less evidence shows that post-earnings-announcement is an illusion from a specific SUE model. |
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