2019
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3372691
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Measuring Investment Opportunities Using Financial Statement Text

Abstract: We textually analyze 10-K texts from EDGAR during 1995-2009 to score firms' investment opportunity sets on multiple dimensions. We identify 646 unique key words that predict future investments and group them into 62 factors. Industry-specific factors include Bio-Pharmaceutical, Banking, Information Technology, Oil & Gas and Semiconductor , while more general factors include Impairment, Debt Intensity, Executive Changes, Preferred Stock Buyback and Capital Seeking. Our multi-dimensional measures of firms' inves… Show more

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“…There are also studies that analyze reports and documents by regulatory organisations. Basu et al [8] predict future investments by deriving industry-specific factors from SEC reports about financial performance of firms. They use Lasso and factor analysis as part of a supervised machine learning technique for driving corporate investments.…”
Section: Corporate Disclosuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are also studies that analyze reports and documents by regulatory organisations. Basu et al [8] predict future investments by deriving industry-specific factors from SEC reports about financial performance of firms. They use Lasso and factor analysis as part of a supervised machine learning technique for driving corporate investments.…”
Section: Corporate Disclosuresmentioning
confidence: 99%