Earnings Announcements: Good News for Institutional Investors and Short Sellers

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Berkman ◽  
Michael D. McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Earnings Announcements ◽  
Good News ◽  
Short Sellers

The Incremental Value Relevance of Media Coverage of Earnings Announcements: Evidence from the Trading of Short Sellers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Rees ◽  
Brady Twedt
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Price Discovery ◽  
Value Relevance ◽  
Earnings Announcements ◽  
Discovery Process ◽  
Trading Behavior ◽  
Earnings Announcement ◽  
Short Sellers ◽  
The Media ◽  
Price Discovery Process

We investigate the relation between media coverage and the trading behavior of short sellers around earnings announcements. Prior research provides conflicting evidence on the role of the media, with some studies finding that the media can impede the price discovery process. Our evidence indicates that short sellers increase their activity in line with the tone of media coverage around earnings announcements, after controlling for earnings news and other factors that affect relative levels of short selling. Furthermore, we show that information in the media successfully forecasts earnings information in the days leading up to the earnings announcement, and that short sellers trade in a manner consistent with information reflected in media coverage preceding the earnings announcement. Our findings are consistent with information contained in the media having value relevance, and suggest that the media may help to facilitate the price discovery process around the release of earnings.

scholarly journals Short Selling and Firms' Disclosure of Bad News: Evidence from Regulation SHO

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Clinch ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Yunyan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Stock Prices ◽  
Short Selling ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Good News ◽  
Management Forecasts ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
Short Sellers ◽  
Informed Traders ◽  
Sec Regulation ◽  
Reputational Costs

As informed traders, short sellers enhance the informativeness of stock prices, especially related to bad news, potentially reducing the benefits and increasing litigation and reputational costs of withholding bad news by managers. We exploit a quasi-natural experimental setting provided by the introduction of SEC regulation SHO (Reg-SHO), which significantly reduced the constraints faced by short sellers for an effectively randomly selected subsample of U.S. firms (pilot firms). Relative to control firms, we find pilot firms increase the likelihood of voluntary bad news management forecasts, provide these forecasts in a more timely manner, and accelerate the release of quarterly bad earnings news. Each of these effects is stronger for subsamples of moderate (compared with extreme) bad news, firms facing high (relative to low) litigation risks, and firms with a forecasting history. Similar effects are not observed for voluntary good news forecasts. A range of robustness tests reinforce our results. JEL Classifications: G14; D22; K22; K41; M40.

scholarly journals Quarterly Earnings Announcement Effect on Stock Return and Trading Volume in Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 32-47
Author(s):  
Jeetendra Dangol ◽  
Ajay Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Trading Volume ◽  
Earnings Announcements ◽  
Good News ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Earnings Announcement ◽  
Quarterly Earnings ◽  
Analysis Methodology

The study examines the stock returns and trading volume reaction to quarterly earnings announcements using the event analysis methodology. Ten commercial banks with 313 earnings announcements are considered between the fiscal year 2010/11 and 2017/18. The observations are portioned into 225 earning-increased (good-news) sub-samples and 88 earning-decreased (bad-news) sub-samples. This paper finds that the Nepalese stock market is inefficient at a semi-strong level, but there is a strong linkage between quarterly earnings announcement and trading volume. Similarly, the study provides evidence of existence of information content hypothesis in the Nepalese stock market.

Short-Selling and Information Arrival around Earnings Announcements: Evidence from Regulation SHO

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Clinch ◽  
Wei Li
Keyword(s):  
Stock Prices ◽  
Earnings Announcements ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Short Selling ◽  
Price Informativeness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Short Sellers ◽  
Information Release ◽  
Negative News ◽  
Shed Light

Short sellers assist in impounding negative news more quickly into stock prices and improve price informativeness. However, there is a lack of consistent evidence about whether short sellers trade predominantly in anticipation of, or in response to, a public information release. To shed light on this question, we exploit Reg SHO, which reduced the constraints faced by short sellers for a subsample of U.S. firms, to examine price informativeness before, during and after earnings announcements. We show that relative to control firms, pilot firms have greater (less) price informativeness before (during) earnings announcements, suggesting that short sellers trade in anticipation of public earnings news, rather than in response to the public news.

INVESTIGASI EMPIRIS TERHADAP PERILAKU FREENDING DALAM REAKSI PASAR TERHADAP PUBLIKASI LABA GOOD NEWS DAN BAD NEWS

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Andreas Lako
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Earnings Announcements ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Good News ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Market Anomaly

This study purposes to investigate the free-riding behattior from stoek market actors in responding to the good and bad news earnings announcements. Theoreticolly, free-riding (and externality) behaviors are the source of market failure, which suggest that regulotion mry still be needed (Wolk et al. 2001; Scott, 2003). But, the empirical investigation with respect to the issue is still rare. Using the good and bad news earnings announcements of 1998-2000 from LQ45 firms listed at theJakarta Stock Exchange and a quasi-experimental design, the results show that there arefree-riding behaviorsfrom market actors in responding to the good news earnings announcements from treatment sample. However, this study fails to find the free-riding behaviors from market actors in responding to the bad news earnings onnouncernents. The study also finds a number of phenomena that reflected the market anomaly. For thefuture research, this study suggests to extend the samples ond periods of earnings announcements, as well as appty the theory and models of behavioral finance.Kata kunci: free-riding, good news, bad news, quasi experimentol, treafinent sample dut contrul sample.

Earnings management and institutional investor trading prior to earnings announcements

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shasha Liu
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Earnings Announcements ◽  
Chinese Stock Market ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Trading Patterns ◽  
Earnings Surprises ◽  
Trading Pattern ◽  
Investor Trading

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate if earnings management affects the trades of different investors prior to earnings announcements.Design/methodology/approachUsing a unique account-level trading data set from the Chinese stock market, the author investigates the different investor trading patterns prior to earnings announcements.FindingsThe author obtains direct evidence to show that: first, institutional investors, particularly active ones, tend to sell (buy) stocks before negative (positive) earnings surprises; second, institutional investors buy stocks intensively with the lowest earnings management and the highest earnings surprises, and the trading patterns are primarily driven by active institutions. No significant trading pattern is observed on the stocks with negative earnings surprises; and third, the author uses a natural experiment in accordance with the Chinese accounting standards reform to address endogeneity, and the causality of the results still holds.Originality/valueThe findings provide clear evidence by emphasizing the importance of earnings management in the formulation of investor decisions.

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