Sales and profit margins are two popular earnings components discussed in the media. We study properties of one-year-ahead analyst forecasts of these two components. As sales are in dollar amounts and profit margin is a ratio, we propose robust statistical methods to assess and contrast their...

We examine how supplier-firm shareholders respond to the earnings announcements of their major customers to test the moderated confidence hypothesis, which predicts overreaction to imprecise signals. In our setting, the moderated confidence hypothesis predicts that supplier shareholders will...

This paper examines whether customer base composition in the U.S., i.e., whether a firm's major customers comprise of government entities or publicly traded companies, affects the properties of supplier's management earnings forecasts. Using a sample of 1,168 management earnings forecasts from...

We investigate the association between earnings quality and price synchronicity. Price synchronicity captures the extent to which a firm's returns are explained by market and industry returns, implying that low price synchronicity could be a result of less industry-wide information impounded...