The Disclosure Quality Of Information Of Securities Analysts

The weekly performance of IBM stock presented a contestant growth. One highlight of the falling of stock price in the 6th week in the investment period was when IBM presented the 3rd quarter financial report. The investors weren’t satisfied with the profit report which they expected to be better especially when other IT companies were doing well in the 3rd quarter. One mistake I made was that I didn’t follow closely to the financial report of the company; therefore, I missed the peak of the stock price. From this experience, I learned that financial reports and current news are important indicators of the stock price. By following closely to the current event and analyzing the financial report, investors can maximize the profit and also become more familiar to the market.

The research shows that the earnings announcements of firms within an industry can impact the share prices of other firms in the same industry. This effect has been labelled as the ‘information transfer effect’. The ‘information transfer effect’ highlights the belief that share prices react to public information emanating from various sources—including

The cause of poor transparency, however, is less important than its effect on a company 's ability to give investors the critical information they need to value their investments. If investors neither believe nor understand financial statements, the performance and fundamental value of that company remains either irrelevant or distorted. Mounting evidence suggests that the market gives a higher value to firms that are upfront with investors and analysts. Transparency pays, companies with fuller disclosure win more trust from investors. Relevant and reliable information means less risk to investors and thus a lower cost of capital, which naturally translates into higher valuations. Of course, there are two ways to interpret this evidence. One is that the market rewards more transparent companies with higher valuations because the risk of unpleasant surprises is believed to be lower. The other interpretation is that companies with good results usually release their earnings earlier. Companies that are doing well have nothing to hide and are eager to publicize their good performance. It is in their best

Investors often come to believe that a stock is undervalued or overvalued compared to other stocks in its industrial group. To calculate an alternate target price for the current and next fiscal year based on those beliefs, investors can apply the average PE multiple for a company 's industrial group to the average professional analyst 's earnings estimate for the company in those periods. Valuation using the industry 's

Hence, the leadership style of Reed Hastings is extremely important for the purpose of this report and will be the key focus of the research as well. In the beginning of the year 2005, the analysts of Wedbush Securities Stock had place a price targeting at 3 dollars, the trading of which was being done at the price of approximately 11 dollars (Loftus

Bloomberg 's Consensus Rating system offers an convenient way for users to get a quick understanding of sell-side analyst expectations of a company 's future stock movement. If a company shows a consensus rating of 4.7 on the function {ANR}, what can this tell us about sell-side expectations of the stock?

In this research paper the authors want to express their thoughts by stating that how to them earnings reporting pertains to the discovery of information that has not been disclosed by either people or other types of sources and focus towards the negative in this study. In my opinion, the title of the paper itself could have had a different title only because throughout the paper it analyzes negative or bad news rather than really paying attention to both perspectives. Also the paper captures the information or news that occurs by using a three day window in which Quarterly Earnings Announcement (QEA) take place and compares it to a period where it does not take place. Furthermore, in this paper there are three hypotheses that arise

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Baruch Lev and Feng Gu authors of “The End of Accounting and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers” indicate that over the past 110 years, the structure and content of financial reports has not changed, and that the role that these reports play in influencing the decisions of investors has greatly diminished. Lev and Gu make a case that non-transaction events that are not captured by the financial reports such as those disclosed through 8-k filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) have a greater impact on stock prices, and thus more useful to investors. In addition, they suggest that one of reasons for the decline in usefulness of financial reports stems from the increase of estimates that has made its way into these reports (Lev and Gu 2016).

Brandt Cornell’s paper “Is the response of analyst to information consistent with fundamental valuation?” reveals that analyst recommendations are pro cyclical. As bad news arrives and the underlying price of the firm’s stock goes down , analyst downgrade company , the opposite effect arises when good news arrives. As Cornell

Abstract. The article reviewed was Qualitative financial statement disclosures: Legal and ethical considerations. The abstract emphasizes that information that demonstrates a non-compliance or illegal transactions should be provided in the disclosure. Otherwise, it negatively impacts the accounting profession (p. 433).

For example, Manna (1966) states that insider trading should be allowed because insider trading is the most effective way to compensate to insider to generate new economic information in firm. Hirshleifer() states that for insider, good information is as good as bad information to make profit but this profit may not be related to economic contribution of insiders in corporate. Proponents of insider trading suggest (Carlton and Fischel (1983) that insiders are the most informative member in the market, and by trading, they bring new information to the markets and causing prices to change toward their true value and, therefore, promoting the optimal allocation of resources. On the other hand, Scholars (Benabou and Laroqu, 1992) say that insider trading may provide incentive to corporate insiders either to delay the announcement of price-sensitive information to public or to prevent to release price sensitive information, which in turn makes stock prices less informative. However, Georgakopoulos (1993) argues that restriction on insider trading may have little adverse impact on market efficiency but it reduces the cost of transaction that burdens on uninformed traders

Corporate directors and officers often obtain advance inside information because of their positions. Sometimes the information can affect the future market value of the corporate stock. It is obvious that their positions can give them a trading advantage over the general public and shareholders. Often times the insider is the company manager; other times it is the company's lawyer, investment banker, or even the printer of the company's financial statement. Anyone who has knowledge before public dissemination of that information stands to benefit from good news or bad news.

Boyle, D., Boyle, J and Carpenter (2014) research titled “The SEC’s Renewed Focus on Accounting Fraud” about the SEC initiative on accounting fraud detection and misleading disclosure by implementing the Accounting Quality Model (AQM) using the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) (p.68). Boyle et al. mentioned Craig M Lewis, director and chief economist of the SECs Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, described AQM as a highly technical robust tool on detecting fraud and other accounting anomalies, while others called it “Robocop” as the use of XBRL tags is capable of computerized analysis and enhanced access to financial data by the stakeholders, the public and the SEC staff (pp.68-69). Boyle et al. cited that Robocop is a computerized system which takes the firm’s same day financial filings, processed it and keeps it in the database and enable open access of the financial data within 24 hours after being posted on the Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) System. Boyle et al. summarized that accounting fraud and improper disclosures are evident in SEC’s renewed focus on its resources through the technology-based tool AQM as key component, while the SEC Financial Reporting and Audit Task Force initiatives focus on exploring and identifying areas vulnerable to fraudulent activities by increased emphasis on financial reporting fraud detection and disclosure irregularities (p.69). Boyle et al. mentioned David Woodcock, chair of the SEC Task

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