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Bundled Earnings Guidance And Analysts' Forecast Revisions, Charles Hsu, Rencheng Wang
Bundled Earnings Guidance And Analysts' Forecast Revisions, Charles Hsu, Rencheng Wang
Research Collection School Of Accountancy
Bundling managerial earnings guidance with quarterly earnings announcements (EAs) has become an increasingly common practice. This study investigates the impact of bundled guidance on analysts' forecast revisions. Our findings indicate that analysts respond more to bundled guidance than non-bundled guidance. This effect increases with analysts' time pressure and cognitive constraints around the EA. Analysts' revisions also incorporate more of the bundled management guidance when accompanied by additional information, such as conference calls. We further find that analysts revise their forecasts more quickly following bundled guidance than non-bundled guidance. Together, these findings are consistent with the notion that analysts place more …