“…In Brazil, companies can disclose their standardized financial statements (SFS) by the end of the first quarter of the following year (end of March). However, due to uncertainties as to the Brazilian market efficiency, we decided to perform the balancing in June of each year, as according to the literature (Argolo, Leal, & Almeida, 2012;Caldeira, Moura, & Santos, 2013;Machado & Medeiros, 2014;Machado, Faff, & Silva, 2017). However, as many events that can potentially affect a security's market price may happen between early April and early June, this choice is a limitation of the study.…”