Do analyst recommendations matter for rival companies?

Yi Li, Dehua Shen, Pengfei Wang and Wei Zhang

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2019, vol. 65, issue C

Abstract: In this paper, we revisit the information spillover produced by analyst recommendations in the context of IPOs in China. Contrary to the contagion effect documented in the previous literature, we find a competitive effect, i.e., positive analyst recommendations on rival firms will decrease the first-day return of IPO stocks while negative analyst recommendations on rival firms will increase the first-day return of IPO stocks. The conclusions are robust to different proxies and windows, as well as different industry classifications. Moreover, by examining IPO stocks' comovement with the market and long-term performance, we demonstrate that this finding cannot be fully explained by hypotheses such as sentiment contagion or biased offering prices. Besides, we also show that this finding is more pronounced in highly competitive and correlated industries.

Keywords: Information spillover; Analyst recommendation; IPO underpricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2019.101380

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