• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Textual Sentiment, Option Characteristics, and Stock Return Predictability
  • Contributor: Chen, Cathy Yi-Hsuan [Author]; Fengler, Matthias R. [Author]; Härdle, Wolfgang Karl [Author]; Liu, Yanchu [Author]
  • Published: Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, International Research Training Group 1792 "High Dimensional Nonstationary Time Series", 2018
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: stock return predictability ; topic model ; trading-time information ; G12 ; C58 ; overnight information ; G41 ; textual sentiment ; option markets ; G14 ; investor disagreement
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  • Description: We distill sentiment from a huge assortment of NASDAQ news articles by means of machine learning methods and examine its predictive power in single-stock option markets and equity markets. We provide evidence that single-stock options react to contemporaneous sentiment. Next, examining return predictability, we discover that while option variables indeed predict stock returns, sentiment variables add further informational content. In fact, both in a regression and a trading context, option variables orthogonalized to public and sentimental news are even more informative predictors of stock returns. Distinguishing further between overnight and trading-time news, we find the first to be more informative. From a statistical topic model, we uncover that this is attributable to the differing thematic coverage of the alternate archives. Finally, we show that sentiment disagreement commands a strong positive risk premium above and beyond market volatility and that lagged returns predict future returns in concentrated sentiment environments.
  • Access State: Open Access