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Insider Trading, Earnings Changes, and Stock Prices

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  • Steven Allen

    (College of Business Administration, Carl H. Lindner Hall, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0211)

  • Ramachandran Ramanan

    (College of Business Administration, Hayes-Healy Center, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556)

Abstract

This study empirically examines the relation between reportable insider trading and the information captured by annual unexpected earnings for a large sample of firms, spanning a ten-year period (1978--87). Each observation is assigned to one of four groups based on the direction of net insider trading (Buy, Sell) and the sign (+, -) of unexpected earnings. For each of these groups, 15-month cumulative abnormal returns are regressed on annual unexpected earnings. The slope coefficient is the largest for the group where insiders are net purchasers and the sign of unexpected earnings is positive. This is consistent with an inference that insider buying interactively confirms the favorable information captured by positive unexpected earnings and this interaction reduces the noise in unexpected earnings. The result with regard to the unfavorable information captured by the group with insider selling and negative unexpected earnings is similar but less pronounced. The analysis also suggests that insider trading conveys information not fully captured by the year's earnings.

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  • Steven Allen & Ramachandran Ramanan, 1995. "Insider Trading, Earnings Changes, and Stock Prices," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 41(4), pages 653-668, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:41:y:1995:i:4:p:653-668
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.41.4.653
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    Cited by:

    1. Juha-Pekka Kallunki & Henrik Nilsson & Janne Peltoniemi, 2009. "Regulated and unregulated insider trading around earnings announcements," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 27(3), pages 285-308, June.
    2. Cheng, Louis T.W. & Davidson III, Wallace N. & Leung, T.Y., 2011. "Insider trading returns and dividend signals," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 421-429, June.
    3. Louis T. W. Cheng & T. Y. Leung, 2008. "Is there information content from insider trading activities preceding earnings and dividend announcements in Hong Kong?," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 48(3), pages 417-437, September.

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