Stock Return Seasonalities and Earnings Information
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
- Vol. 25 (2) , 187
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2330823
Abstract
Previous literature documents significant seasonalities in stock market returns. One explanation is seasonality in earnings information. If true, a return index comprised solely of firms reporting earnings should exhibit stronger intertemporal seasonalities than a return index comprised of firms not reporting earnings. Employing all New York and American Stock Exchange firms over six years, this study examines the seasonality of stock returns. Generally, seasonal patterns for reporting returns are found to be similar to or slightly weaker than for nonreporting returns. Thus, it is doubtful that earnings news seasonality induces stock return seasonality.Keywords
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