This paper examines properties of analysts' earnings forecasts without stock recommendation in Korean capital market for the sample period from 2002 to 2009. Although earnings forecasts without stock recommendation are one of the most important inputs...
This paper examines properties of analysts' earnings forecasts without stock recommendation in Korean capital market for the sample period from 2002 to 2009. Although earnings forecasts without stock recommendation are one of the most important inputs in calculating the fundamental value of a firm, prior studies focus primarily on earnings forecasts with stock recommendation, analysts’incentives to follow a firm, and examine whether their earnings forecasts are biased and what incentives analysts have and shed little light on why they issue earnings forecasts. Also it has never been empirically investigated the properties of earnings forecasts without stock recommendation. This paper analyzes those who provide earnings forecasts without stock recommendation. and the firm characteristics of forecasted earnings, assuming that analysts’ forecasts without stock recommendation are driven by different reasons from other earnings forecasts and there will be some fundamental differences in their characteristics. For example, issuing earnings forecasts without stock recommendation needs less information and lower level of analytic ability for analysts compared to other earnings forecasts, so they are more likely to be issued by not-established analysts on average. Also one of reasons cou