Shared Analyst Coverage: Unifying Momentum Spillover Effects

64 Pages Posted: 9 Aug 2017 Last revised: 12 Jun 2019

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Usman Ali

Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO)

David A. Hirshleifer

Marshall School of Business, USC; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Date Written: May 2019

Abstract

Appendix is available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3395415

Identifying firm connections by shared analyst coverage, we find that a connected-firm (CF) momentum factor generates a monthly alpha of 1.68% (t = 9.67). In spanning regressions, the alphas of industry, geographic, customer, customer/supplier industry, single- to multi-segment, and technology momentum factors are insignificant/negative after controlling for CF momentum. Similar results hold in cross-sectional regressions and in developed international markets. Sell-side analysts incorporate news about linked firms sluggishly. These effects are stronger for complex and indirect linkages. Consistent with limited investor attention, these results indicate that momentum spillover effects are a unified phenomenon that is captured by shared analyst coverage.

Keywords: CF momentum, cross-asset momentum, industry momentum, geographic momentum, customer momentum, supplier momentum, technology momentum, complicated firms

JEL Classification: G10, G12, G14, G24

Suggested Citation

Ali, Usman and Hirshleifer, David A., Shared Analyst Coverage: Unifying Momentum Spillover Effects (May 2019). Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3015582 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3015582

Usman Ali

Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) ( email )

United States

David A. Hirshleifer (Contact Author)

Marshall School of Business, USC ( email )

Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089
United States

HOME PAGE: http://https://sites.uci.edu/dhirshle/

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) ( email )

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