Do Brokerage Analysts' Recommendations Have Investment Value?

Kent Womack

Journal of Finance, 1996, vol. 51, issue 1, 137-67

Abstract: An analysis of new buy and sell recommendations of stocks by security analysts at major U.S. brokerage firms shows significant, systematic discrepancies between prerecommendation prices and eventual values. The initial return at the time of the recommendations is large, even though few recommendations coincide with new public news or provide previously unavailable facts. However, these initial price reactions are incomplete. For buy recommendations, the mean postevent drift is modest (+2.4 percent) and short-lived, but for sell recommendations, the drift is larger (-9.1 percent) and extends for six months. Analysts appear to have market timing and stock picking abilities. Copyright 1996 by American Finance Association.

Date: 1996
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