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Profit Warnings and Timing

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  • Dave Jackson
  • Jeff Madura

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We find that profit‐warning announcements elicit a strong negative market response that is not sensitive to timing the warning in advance of the earnings announcement. Share prices begin to adjust about five days before a profit warning, and the market response is not complete until about five days after the warning. The accumulated response over the 11‐day period ending five days after the announcement is −21.7%. The profit warning effect over the two‐day announcement period is 32 times the valuation effect upon subsequent release of the actual earnings. There is no evidence of a reversal after this period, and therefore no sign that the market response is excessive.

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  • Dave Jackson & Jeff Madura, 2003. "Profit Warnings and Timing," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 38(4), pages 497-513, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:finrev:v:38:y:2003:i:4:p:497-513
    DOI: 10.1111/1540-6288.00057
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