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Investors can pay close attention to a company and still overlook information that matters to its shares.
Pan, Sul and Wang study whether the effort of processing a large earnings surprise delays the incorporation of market-wide news. Their finding links the market return on the event day with the announcing company’s subsequent abnormal returns.
This is a useful complement to earnings-call analysis: the company story may temporarily crowd out the broader market story.
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