The media response to a loss of analyst coverage

Nicholas Guest () and Jaewoo Kim ()
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Nicholas Guest: Cornell University
Jaewoo Kim: University of Oregon

Review of Accounting Studies, 2024, vol. 29, issue 4, No 21, 3752-3787

Abstract: Abstract This paper examines how the media responds to the loss of analyst coverage resulting from brokerage mergers and closures. We find some evidence of an overall decrease in media coverage of affected firms, consistent with analysts serving as a useful information source for the media. However, media coverage during the earnings announcement significantly increases, consistent with the media switching their efforts to events with more non-analyst (e.g., firm-provided) information available. Both the overall decrease and the shift towards the earnings announcement are more pronounced for journalists who are more likely to rely on analysts and for firms that provide more information to supplement their earnings announcement (e.g., bundled guidance and investor relations). Overall our paper suggests that the loss of analyst coverage increases the costs of supplying media coverage, resulting in a decrease in media coverage as well as a greater focus on the earnings announcement within the remaining coverage.

Keywords: Financial media; Sell-side analysts; Intermediary; News; Earnings; Sentiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 G24 G29 G30 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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