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An Analysis of the Recommendations of the “Superstar” Money Managers at Barron's Annual Roundtable
Published: 09/01/1995 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1995.tb04057.x
HEMANG DESAI, PREM C. JAIN
We examine the performance of common stock recommendations made by prominent money managers at Barron's Annual Roundtable from 1968 to 1991. To avoid survivorship bias, we examine the performance of recommendations by all the participants. The buy recommendations earn significant abnormal returns of 1.91 percent from the recommendation day to the publication day, a period of about 14 days. However, the abnormal returns are essentially zero for one to three year postpublication day holding periods. Thus, an individual investing according to the Roundtable recommendations published in Barron's would not benefit from the advice.
An Investigation of the Informational Role of Short Interest in the Nasdaq Market
Published: 12/17/2002 | DOI: 10.1111/0022-1082.00495
Hemang Desai, K. Ramesh, S. Ramu Thiagarajan, Bala V. Balachandran
This paper examines the relationship between the level of short interest and stock returns in the Nasdaq market from June 1988 through December 1994. We find that heavily shorted firms experience significant negative abnormal returns ranging from −0.76 to −1.13 percent per month after controlling for the market, size, book‐to‐market, and momentum factors. These negative returns increase with the level of short interest, indicating that a higher level of short interest is a stronger bearish signal. We find that heavily shorted firms are more likely to be delisted compared to their size, book‐to‐market, and momentum matched control firms.