We show that analysts from sell-side firms generally recommend "glamour" (i.e., positive momentum, high growth, high volume, and relatively expensive) stocks. Naïve adherence to these recommendations can be costly, because the level of the consensus recommendation adds value only among stocks with favorable quantitative characteristics (i.e., value stocks and positive momentum stocks). In fact, among stocks with unfavorable quantitative characteristics, higher consensus recommendations are associated with worse subsequent returns. In contrast, we find that the quarterly change in consensus recommendations is a robust return predictor that appears to contain information orthogonal to a large range of other predictive variables.FINANCIAL RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS have long been interested in understanding how the activities of financial analysts affect capital market efficiency. Currently in the United States, over 3,000 analysts work for more than 350 sellside investment firms. 1 These analysts produce corporate earnings forecasts, write reports on individual companies, provide industry and sector analyses, and issue stock recommendations. Most prior studies have concluded that the information they produce promotes market efficiency by helping investors to more accurately value companies. 2The Journal of Finance about the intrinsic stock values relative to their current market prices, and finally rate the investment potential of each stock. As Elton, Gruber, and Grossman (1986, p. 699) observe, their stock recommendations represent "one of the few cases in evaluating information content where the forecaster is recommending a clear and unequivocal course of action rather than producing an estimate of a number, the interpretation of which is up to the user." In short, these recommendations offer a unique opportunity to study analyst judgment and preferences across large samples of stocks.Our study investigates the source of the investment value provided by analyst stock recommendations and changes in recommendations. One possible source of this value is the ability of analysts to collect and process firm-specific information useful in identifying undervalued or overvalued stocks. Alternatively, it is possible that analyst recommendations derive their value by tilting toward stocks with particular characteristics that predict future returns. We assess the contribution of these sources of potential value.We also assess the extent to which sell-side analysts make full use of available information signals in formulating stock recommendations. We find that analysts do not fully take into account the ability of various stock characteristics to predict returns. Moreover, our evidence shows that the direction of the bias in analyst recommendations is in line with economic incentives faced by sell-side brokerage firms.We expect this research to be of interest to both financial academics and practitioners. From an academic perspective, the study contributes to a better understanding of how analysts evaluate stocks, and ...

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Degradation of organic materials is responsible for the short operation lifetimes of organic light-emitting devices, but the mechanism by which such degradation is initiated has yet to be fully established. Here we report a new mechanism for degradation of emitting layers in blue-phosphorescent devices. We investigate binary mixtures of a wide bandgap host and a series of novel Ir(III) complex dopants having N-heterocyclocarbenic ligands. Our mechanistic study reveals the charge-neutral generation of polaron pairs (radical ion pairs) by electron transfer from the dopant to host excitons. Annihilation of the radical ion pair occurs by charge recombination, with such annihilation competing with bond scission. Device lifetime correlates linearly with the rate constant for the annihilation of the radical ion pair. Our findings demonstrate the importance of controlling exciton-induced electron transfer, and provide novel strategies to design materials for long-lifetime blue electrophosphorescence devices.

Finding narrow-band, ultrapure blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials is extremely important for developing highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Here, spin-vibronic coupling (SVC)-assisted ultrapure blue emitters obtained by joining two carbazole-derived moieties at a para position of a phenyl unit and performing substitutions using several blocking groups are presented. Despite a relatively large singlet-triplet gap (∆E ST ) of >0.2 eV, efficient triplet-to-singlet crossover can be realized, with assistance from resonant SVC. To enhance the spin crossover, electronic energy levels are fine-tuned, thereby causing ∆E ST to be in resonance with a triplet-triplet gap (∆E TT ). A sizable population transfer between spin multiplicities (>10 3 s −1 ) is achieved, and this result agrees well with theoretical predictions. An OLED fabricated using a multiple-resonance-type SVC-TADF emitter with CIE color coordinates of (0.15, 0.05) exhibits ultrapure blue emissions, with a narrow full-width-at-half-maximum of 21 nm and a high external quantum efficiency of 23.1%.

Although the organic light‐emitting diode (OLED) has been successfully commercialized, the development of deep‐blue OLEDs with high efficiency and long lifetime remains a challenge. Here, a novel hyperfluorescent OLED that incorporates the Pt(II) complex (PtON7‐dtb) as a phosphorescent sensitizer and a hydrocarbon‐based and multiple resonance‐based fluorophore as an emitter (TBPDP and ν‐DABNA) in the device emissive layer (EML), is proposed. Such an EML system can promote efficient energy transfer from the triplet excited states of the sensitizer to the singlet excited states of the fluorophore, thus significantly improving the efficiency and lifetime of the device. As a result, a deep‐blue hyperfluorescent OLED using a multiple resonance‐based fluorophore (ν‐DABNA) with Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage chromaticity coordinate y below 0.1 is demonstrated, which attains a narrow full width at half maximum of ≈17 nm, fourfold increased maximum current efficiency of 48.9 cd A−1, and 19‐fold improved half‐lifetime of 253.8 h at 1000 cd m−2 compared to a conventional phosphorescent OLED. The findings can lead to better understanding of the hyperfluorescent OLEDs with high performance.