If you are in search of accurate forecasts on a company's earnings and future stock prices, you could do better turning to analysts who have recently disclosed a wide range of forecasts for the same company—not only earnings and price targets, but also cash flow, dividends, book value, capital expenditure, gross margin, operating income, pre-tax income forecasts and so on, according to a new paper by Peter Pope of Bocconi's Department of Accounting and recent Bocconi Ph.D. graduate Tong Wang, now at Barclays plc in London.
