Panel C of Table 1 presents results using fiscal year returns, which exclude the
market reaction to the current year's earnings announcement. I use this specification
to isolate the impact of publicly available 'news' received from other
sources before earnings is announced. Buy-and-hold annual returns are cumulated
to end at the fiscal year-end, in contrast to Panel A, which cumulated
annual returns to end three months later. The results are quite similar to those in
Panels A and B.