Post Loss/:Profit Announcement Drift

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loss/profit mispricing
loss/profit predictability
accounting losses/profits
post-earnings-announcement drift
earnings-based anomalies
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Balakrishnan, Karthik
Bartov, Eli
Faurel, Lucile
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We document a market failure to fully respond to loss/profit quarterly announcements. The annualized post portfolio formation return spread between two portfolios formed on extreme losses and extreme profits is approximately 21 percent. This loss/profit anomaly is incremental to previously documented accounting-related anomalies, and is robust to alternative risk adjustments, distress risk, firm size, short sales constraints, transaction costs, and sample periods. In an effort to explain this finding, we show that this mispricing is related to differences between conditional and unconditional probabilities of losses/profits, as if stock prices do not fully reflect conditional probabilities in a timely fashion.

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2010-05-01
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Journal of Accounting and Economics
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