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How Good Are Equity Analysts? Investigating The Impact Of Analyst Recommendations On Portfolio Performance, Maxwell Dawson
How Good Are Equity Analysts? Investigating The Impact Of Analyst Recommendations On Portfolio Performance, Maxwell Dawson
CMC Senior Theses
This paper lies at the convergence of the portfolio optimization literature and the equity research industry. I attempt to quantify the benefit provided to an investor by equity analysts from an asset allocation perspective, and hypothesize that no significant benefit exists because of the incentive misalignments facing analysts as well as the inherent difficulty of valuing stocks. Using a Bayesian regression framework with prior beliefs for alpha generated based on equity analysts’ recommendations, I find no significant difference in out-of-sample performance between portfolios which take analyst recommendations into account and portfolios which do not.
Analyst Non-Gaap Reporting: When Do Equity Analysts Adjust Gaap Earnings – An Application Of Text Based Firm Complexity, Patrick Chen
Analyst Non-Gaap Reporting: When Do Equity Analysts Adjust Gaap Earnings – An Application Of Text Based Firm Complexity, Patrick Chen
CMC Senior Theses
Equity analysts adjust GAAP earnings to report non-GAAP figures that they believe better represent a firm’s current and future performance. The importance of such non-GAAP(street) figures has been determined and accepted by the literature, but the process in which analysts arrive at such figures is less understood. I apply a newly defined measure of firm complexity using text based analysis of firm annual reports and investigate its effect. When complexity increases, it becomes harder to individuate different components of a system. When that system is a firm, complexity then increases the difficulty in determining an accurate measure of performance. The …