Accounting Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
5-2010
Publication Source
Journal of Accounting and Economics
Volume
50
Issue
1
Start Page
20
Last Page
41
DOI
10.1016/j.jacceco.2009.12.002
Abstract
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.
Copyright/Permission Statement
© 2010. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Keywords
loss/profit mispricing, loss/profit predictability, accounting losses/profits, post-earnings-announcement drift, earnings-based anomalies
Recommended Citation
Balakrishnan, K., Bartov, E., & Faurel, L. (2010). Post Loss/:Profit Announcement Drift. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 50 (1), 20-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2009.12.002
Date Posted: 27 November 2017
This document has been peer reviewed.