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Expectation disarray: Analysts' growth forecast anomaly in China

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  • Liu, Laura Xiaolei
  • Zhu, Yandi
  • Zhang, Xinyu
  • Zhang, Yingguang

Abstract

Analysts' growth forecasts positively predict stock returns in China, opposite to the results found in the US. Strategies that buy stocks with high growth forecasts and sell those with low growth forecasts earn annual abnormal returns of up to 20% (with t-values exceeding three). These results are stronger for longer-horizon forecasts and ex-ante more informative forecasts. In addition, the deviation of analysts' forecasts from unbiased forecasts based on statistical models positively predicts abnormal returns. Although the relationship between analysts' forecasts and returns in China is opposite to that in the US, these forecasts positively predict actual growth and are often too extreme, as in the US. Our results suggest that investors in China overlook valuable information contained in analysts' forecasts.

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  • Liu, Laura Xiaolei & Zhu, Yandi & Zhang, Xinyu & Zhang, Yingguang, 2023. "Expectation disarray: Analysts' growth forecast anomaly in China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:pacfin:v:82:y:2023:i:c:s0927538x23002639
    DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2023.102192
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    Keywords

    Stock return; Analyst forecast; China; Expectation;
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    JEL classification:

    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations

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