How Investors Trade Around Interim Earnings Announcements

Download or read book How Investors Trade Around Interim Earnings Announcements written by Hannu J. Schadewitz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on non-institutional trading behavior around interim earnings announcements in the emerging market. We separate the stock trading activity of Finnish households into five trading classes and compare the results to corresponding institutional trading. Data covering the years 1996-2000 shows that earnings news triggers trading in every trading classes. Before the event, especially active individuals show increased buying and selling activity compared to the non-event period. This finding supports Kim and Verrecchia's (1991a, b) proposition that announcement stimulates private information-gathering and trading. After the event we find that Finnish households in the most active investor class tend to follow a contrarian strategy, especially selling after the good news. This adds to previous evidence by Grinblatt and Keloharju (2000b). Further, individuals with active trading, perform better than the passive investors around the announcement. Finally, the impact of the announcement on institutional trading is clearly milder compared to that on the active investor classes.