Initiating coverage, broker reputation and management earnings forecasts in Australia

Rob Brown, Howard W. H. Chan and Yew Kee Ho

Accounting and Finance, 2007, vol. 47, issue 3, pages 401-421

Abstract: We examine more than 5000 recommendations made by Australian brokers in the period 1996-2001. We find evidence that initiating recommendations produce greater share price responses than continuing recommendations, particularly for hold, underperform and sell recommendations. We also find evidence that initiating recommendations made by higher-reputation brokers and those made in the absence of a management earnings forecast attract different share price responses. Finally, we find that share price responses to initiating recommendations, conditional on the market consensus recommendation, are significantly different to continuing recommendations. Copyright (c) The Authors
Journal compilation (c) 2007 AFAANZ.

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