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Industry Effects in Firm and Segment Profitability Forecasting

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  • David Schröder
  • Andrew Yim

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Academics and practitioners have long recognized the importance of a firm's industry membership in explaining its financial performance. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, recent research shows that industry‐specific profitability forecasting models are not better than economy‐wide models. The objective of this paper is to further explore this result and to provide insights into when and why industry‐specific profitability forecasting models are useful. We show that industry‐specific forecasts are significantly more accurate in predicting profitability for single‐segment firms and, to some extent, for business segments. For multiple‐segment firms, the aggregation of segment‐level data for external reporting of firm‐level financials obliterates the industry effects of their segments. Incidence sectorielle observée dans les prévisions de rentabilité des entreprises et de leurs branches d'activité Universitaires et professionnels en exercice reconnaissent depuis longtemps l'importance de l'appartenance sectorielle d'une entreprise dans l'explication de sa performance financière. Pourtant, contrairement aux idées reçues, les travaux de recherche récents montrent que les modèles prévisionnels de rentabilité particuliers à un secteur d'activité ne sont pas plus efficaces que les modèles relatifs à l'ensemble de l’économie. Les auteurs ont pour objectif d'explorer plus avant ce constat et de donner un aperçu des circonstances dans lesquelles les modèles prévisionnels de rentabilité particuliers à un secteur sont utiles et des raisons pour lesquelles ils le sont. Ils démontrent que les prévisions particulières à un secteur sont sensiblement plus exactes lorsqu'il s'agit de prédire la rentabilité d'entreprises exerçant leurs activités dans une seule branche et, dans une certaine mesure, la rentabilité de branches d'activité. Dans le cas des entreprises dont les activités relèvent de plusieurs branches, le regroupement des données relatives à ces différentes branches d'activité aux fins de communication externe de l'information financière à l’échelle de l'entreprise annihile l'incidence sectorielle de leurs branches d'activité.

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  • David Schröder & Andrew Yim, 2018. "Industry Effects in Firm and Segment Profitability Forecasting," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 35(4), pages 2106-2130, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:coacre:v:35:y:2018:i:4:p:2106-2130
    DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12361
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