Profitability, investment and average returns

EF Fama, KR French - Journal of financial economics, 2006 - Elsevier
Valuation theory says that expected stock returns are related to three variables: the book-to-
market equity ratio (Bt/Mt), expected profitability, and expected investment. Given Bt/Mt and …

Customer satisfaction, analyst stock recommendations, and firm value

X Luo, C Homburg, J Wieseke - Journal of Marketing …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Although managers are interested in the financial value of customers and researchers have
pointed out the importance of stock analysts who advise investors, no studies to date have …

Are analysts' earnings forecasts more accurate when accompanied by cash flow forecasts?

AC Call, S Chen, YH Tong - Review of Accounting Studies, 2009 - Springer
We examine whether analysts' earnings forecasts are more accurate when they also issue
cash flow forecasts. We find that (i) analysts' earnings forecasts issued together with cash …

Earnings management and the contest to the control: an international analysis of family-owned firms

M Jara Bertin, FJ Lopez Iturriaga - Spanish Journal of Finance and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we focus on the conflict of interests among shareholders as a possible
determinant of earnings management. Using a sample of 3559 listed firms from the United …

Australian evidence on analysts' cash flow forecasts: issuance, accuracy and usefulness

X Chen, M Lu, Y Shan, Y Zhang - Accounting & Finance, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the factors affecting the issuance, accuracy and usefulness of analysts'
cash flow forecasts (CFFs) in Australia. Given the economic importance of the mining …

Do analysts' cash flow forecasts mitigate the accrual anomaly? International evidence

EA Gordon, KA Petruska, M Yu - Journal of international …, 2014 - publications.aaahq.org
We investigate the role of analysts' cash flow forecasts in mitigating the accrual anomaly in
an international setting. Based on a sample from 20 world market economies, we find less …

[HTML][HTML] La calidad e importancia de las utilidades contables para las empresas cotizadas en los mercados de capitales chilenos

M Jara Bertin, FJ López Iturriaga - El trimestre económico, 2011 - scielo.org.mx
Dado que la información trasmitida mediante los estados financieros corporativos tiene gran
peso y que, por tanto, desempeña un papel central en los mercados de capitales …

Mandatory earnings disaggregation and the persistence and pricing of earnings components

ER Venter, SF Cahan, D Emanuel - The International Journal of Accounting, 2013 - Elsevier
We investigate whether the special item anomaly in the US exists in an environment where
the separation of non-recurring items from earnings is mandated. We use South African …

The role of financial analysts in stock market efficiency with respect to annual earnings and its cash and accrual components

D Hollie, PB Shane, Q Zhao - Accounting & Finance, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines biases in stock prices and financial analysts' earnings forecasts. These
biases take the form of systematic overweighting or underweighting of the persistence …

Earnings management and accrual anomaly across market states and business cycles

SYM Ze-To - Advances in Accounting, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper examines if the conditioning on market states is important to earnings
management behaviors and profitability of accrual hedge strategy. This paper discusses four …