DP14117 Cash Flow News and Stock Price Dynamics

Author(s):	Davide Pettenuzzo, Riccardo Sabbatucci, Allan Timmermann
Publication Date:	November 2019
Keyword(s):	Dividend growth, High-frequency cash flow news, Present value model
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Programme Areas:	Financial Economics
Link to this Page:	cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=14117

We develop a new approach to modeling dynamics in cash flow data extracted from daily firm-level dividend announcements. We decompose daily cash flow news into a persistent component, jumps, and temporary shocks. Empirically, we find that the persistent cash flow component is a highly significant predictor of future growth in dividends and consumption. Using a log-linearized present value model, we show that news about the persistent dividend growth component helps predict stock returns consistent with asset-pricing constraints implied by this model. News about the daily dividend growth process also helps explain concurrent return volatility and the probability of jumps in stock returns.