Earnings and Dividend Announcements is there a Corroboration Effect?

Alex Kane, Young Ki Lee, Alan J. Marcus

NBER Working Paper No. 1248 (Also Reprint No. r0610)
Issued in June 1985
NBER Program(s):   ME

We examine abnormal stock returns surrounding contemporaneous earnings and dividend announcements in order to determine whether investors evaluate the two announcements in relation to each other.We find that there is a statistically significant interaction effect.The abnormal return corresponding to any earnings or dividend announcement depends upon the value of the other announcement. This evidence suggests the existence of a corroborative relationship between the two announcements. Investors give more credence to unanticipated dividend increases or decreases when earnings are also above or below expectations, and vice versa.

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Published: Kane, Alex, Young Ki Lee, and Alan J. Marcus. "Earnings and Dividend Announcements: Is There a Corroboration Effect?" Journal of Finance, Vol. 39, No. 4, (September 1984), pp. 1091-1099.

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