Security analyst report has been reliable among the information collected by general stock market participants, which is also used by professionals. Deducting the result of Security analyst report requires significant time and cost. There has been a l...
Security analyst report has been reliable among the information collected by general stock market participants, which is also used by professionals. Deducting the result of Security analyst report requires significant time and cost. There has been a lot of studies about the value of this report for a long time. Some institutions select best analysts based on their analysts’ performance and reputation. The report written by the best analysts are highly appreciated in stock markets. However, there has been no analysis clarifying whether the best analysts’ reports conveys more accurate information compared to those of other analysts or not. Therefore, we analyzed the accuracy and sustainability of the best analysts’ target price forecasting, and compared them with those of other general analysts’ forecasting. Firstly, we found out that there are no big difference between the accuracy of two groups. While it was shown that both repots are highly accurate since real price tends to go higher than the reported target price within 6 months. Moreover, the sustainability also showed no difference between the best and the other analysts. An analyst who has forecasted an accurate target price shows tendency of doing it again. There seemed to be no relation with whether the analyst is chosen as the best or not. Lastly, even though the best analysts analyze more data to deliver information to investors, both accuracy and sustainability of the information didn’t show significant superiority compared to that reported by general analysts.
As a result, analysts’ performance, of which metrics are accuracy and sustainability of target price forecasting, have little effect on the selection process between two evaluation criteria for the best analyst selection. The critical factor in the selection is reputation in a stock market and frequency of high-quality reports.