Short interest, returns, and fundamentals
Ferhat Akbas, Ekkehart Boehmer, Bilal Erturk, Sorin Sorescu: This study show that short interest predicts stock returns because short sellers are able to anticipate bad news, negative earnings surprises, and downward revisions in analyst earnings forecasts.
Author(s):
School of Business, University of Kansas
EDHEC Business School
Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
They appear to have information about these events several months before they become public. Most importantly, the cross-sectional relation between short interest and future stock returns vanishes when controlling for short sellers’ information about future fundamental news. Thus, short sellers contribute, in a significant manner, to price discovery about firm fundamentals, but the source of their information remains an open question.
| Type: | Working paper |
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| Date: | le 04/02/2013 |
| Research Cluster : | Finance |
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