EARNINGS THAT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ACCRUAL COMPONENT ARE LESS PERSISTENT

5. Analyst 1: Earnings that have a significant accrual component are less persistent.

Analyst 2: Low-quality earnings are insufficient to cover the company’s cost of capital

and/or are derived from nonrecurring, one-off activities.

A. Analyst 1 is correct.

B. Analyst 2 is correct.

C. Both analysts are correct.

LO.g: Explain mean reversion in earnings and how the accruals component of earnings

affects the speed of mean reversion.