Overconfidence and Confirmation Bias
Overconfidence, in behavioral finance, causes analysts to overestimate the growth potential of growth companies. As a result, they tend to overemphasize good news and underemphasize bad news related to such firms, possibly in the belief that growth companies must also be good stocks.
The emphasis of news that confirms a pre-existing opinion is also called confirmation bias.
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