Earnings Prediction with Deep Learning

Lars Elend, Sebastian A. Tideman, Kerstin Lopatta and Oliver Kramer

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Abstract: In the financial sector, a reliable forecast the future financial performance of a company is of great importance for investors' investment decisions. In this paper we compare long-term short-term memory (LSTM) networks to temporal convolution network (TCNs) in the prediction of future earnings per share (EPS). The experimental analysis is based on quarterly financial reporting data and daily stock market returns. For a broad sample of US firms, we find that both LSTMs outperform the naive persistent model with up to 30.0% more accurate predictions, while TCNs achieve and an improvement of 30.8%. Both types of networks are at least as accurate as analysts and exceed them by up to 12.2% (LSTM) and 13.2% (TCN).

Date: 2020-06, Revised 2020-10
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Published in LNCS 12325 (2020) 267-274

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