Does the cessation of quarterly earnings guidance reduce investors’ short-termism?

Yongtae Kim, Lixin (Nancy) Su () and Xindong (Kevin) Zhu
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Yongtae Kim: Santa Clara University
Lixin (Nancy) Su: Lingnan University
Xindong (Kevin) Zhu: City University of Hong Kong

Review of Accounting Studies, 2017, vol. 22, issue 2, No 7, 715-752

Abstract: Abstract The practice of providing quarterly earnings guidance has been criticized for encouraging investors to fixate on short-term earnings and encouraging managerial myopia. Using data from the post–Regulation Fair Disclosure period, we examine whether the cessation of quarterly earnings guidance reduces short-termism among investors. We show that, after guidance cessation, investors in firms that stop quarterly guidance are composed of a larger (smaller) proportion of long-term (short-term) institutions, put more (less) weight on long-term (short-term) earnings in firm valuation, become more (less) sensitive to analysts’ long-term (short-term) earning forecast revisions, and are less likely to dismiss chief executive officers for missing quarterly earnings targets by small amounts, relative to investors in firms that continue to issue quarterly earnings guidance. Our study provides new evidence of the benefit of stopping quarterly earnings guidance, that is, the reduction of short-termism among investors.

Keywords: Voluntary disclosure; Earnings guidance; Management forecasts; Investor short-termism; Managerial myopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M40 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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