Analyst following along the supply chain
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Review of Accounting Studies
Publication Date
3-2015
Volume
20
Issue
1
First Page
210
Last Page
214
Publisher
Springer New York LLC
Keywords
Supply chain, Information transfers, Analyst following, Forecast revisions, Forecast accuracy, Customer momentum
Abstract
We document that the likelihood of an analyst following a supplier–customer firm pair increases with the strength of the economic ties along the supply chain, as measured by the percentage of the supplier’s sales to the customer. Analysts who follow a covered firm’s customer provide more accurate earnings forecasts for the supplier firm than analysts who do not. While both types of analysts respond to and incorporate the earnings news from the customer firm into their revisions of the supplier’s earnings forecasts, supplier–customer analysts exhibit a larger improvement in their forecast accuracy for the supplier subsequent to the customer’s earnings announcements, when compared to other analysts. Overall, the evidence suggests that supplier–customer analysts benefit from the informational complementarities along the supply chain and improve their forecast accuracy as a result.
DOI
10.1007/s11142-014-9295-6
Print ISSN
13806653
E-ISSN
15737136
Funding Information
Guan and Zhang acknowledge research start-up grants from the City University of Hong Kong and their research assistant Sophie Zhou. Wong appreciates financial support from the CMA Professorship in Accounting and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Publisher Statement
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Full-text Version
Publisher’s Version
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Guan, Y., Wong, M.H.F. & Zhang, Y. (2015). Analyst following along the supply chain. Review of Accounting Studies, 20, 210-214. doi: 10.1007/s11142-014-9295-6