Do accurate earnings forecasts facilitate superior investment recommendations?

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 455-483

  Loh, Roger K ^a,b   Mian, G Mujtaba ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Earnings forecasts; Earnings based valuation models; Security analysts; Stock recommendations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646475583     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.03.009     Document Type: Article

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