Non‐Deal Roadshows, Informed Trading, and Analyst Conflicts of Interest

Autor: Russell Jame, Jared Williams, Daniel Bradley
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: The Journal of Finance. 77:265-315
ISSN: 1540-6261
0022-1082
DOI: 10.1111/jofi.13089
Popis: Non-deal roadshows (NDRs) are private meetings between management and institutional investors, typically organized by sell-side analysts. We find that around NDRs, local institutional investors trade heavily and profitably, while retail trading is significantly less informed. Analysts who sponsor NDRs issue significantly more optimistic recommendations and target prices, coupled with more “beatable” earnings forecasts, consistent with analysts issuing strategically biased forecasts in order to win NDR business. Our results suggest that NDRs result in a substantial information advantage for institutional investors and create significant conflicts of interests for the analysts that organize them.
Databáze: OpenAIRE