This paper investigates the characteristics and properties of financial analyst judgment in a portfolio decision context. By adopting a research strategy which allowed for the emergence of different types of judges, the disagreement evident in subject response distributions was shown to reflect the characteristic styles by which financial analysts perceive and evaluate security prospects. These characteristic styles or categories of financial analyst decision behavior were subsequently explained by systematic differences in subject cue utilization strategies and subject demographic information.
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