Journal of Accounting Research Vol. 47 No. 1 2009
Analysts' Incentives and Street Earnings
Abstract
We examine whether analysts' incentives are associated with street earnings. Because prior research argues that analysts' incentives to promote stocks increase in the extent to which the stock exhibits glamour characteristics, we predict that analysts are more likely to make income‐increasing adjustments in determining street earnings for glamour stocks than for value stocks. We find that analysts are more likely to exclude expense items from street earnings for glamour stocks than for value stocks and that excluded expense items help predict future earnings for glamour stocks but not for value stocks. Overall, our results suggest that analysts' self‐interest influences street earnings and this self‐interest leads to street earnings that are less useful in predicting future earnings for glamour stocks.
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1475-679x.2008.00311.x
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 45-69
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex bibtex:phds-export.bib crossref