regression, BVEPS is book value of equity per share, and NIPS is net income per share. The good/bad news regression is based on a two-stage regression. In the first stage, NI/P is regressed on industry and country fixed-effect indicator variables. The second-stage regression is I NI/P]* = i RETURN + s, where
[NI/P]' is the residual from the first-stage regression, and RETURN is stock return computed over the 12 months ending 3 months after year-end. Good (bad) news observations are those for which RETURN is nonnegative (negative). Adjusted R2 is from the second-stage regressions.
t indicates significantly different from zero at the 5% level (one-sided).