We investigate media influence on stock returns that are revised by sellside analysts. Our main findings are twofold. First, post-announcement returns depend on whether the stock is covered by the media. Media-covered stocks demonstrate weaker post-announcement returns than their non-media-covered counterparts. Second, for media-covered event samples, we create a sentiment proxy using a unique news word count method and investigate whether pre-event sentiment affects post-event returns. Our results indicate that pre-event sentiment dictates short-run investor behavior and affects the post-announcement return in a significant manner.
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Azuma, T., Okada, K., & Hamuro, Y. (2015). Is no news good news? The streaming news effect on investor behavior surrounding analyst stock revision announcement. In Behavioral Interactions, Markets, and Economic Dynamics: Topics in Behavioral Economics (pp. 567–593). Springer Japan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55501-8_20
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