Author : Pascal Nguyen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Book Synopsis Market Underreaction and Predictability in the Cross-Section of Japanese Stock Returns by : Pascal Nguyen
Download or read book Market Underreaction and Predictability in the Cross-Section of Japanese Stock Returns written by Pascal Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, I analyze the relationship between financial statements information and stock returns for firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Firm-specific information is captured by way of score indicative of the firm's cash flow generating potential. The results show that score-based portfolio strategies can produce significant abnormal returns over a 10-year sample period. The excess return of high-score portfolios does not appear to result from a higher exposure to risk factors. The predictability of cross-section returns does not derive either from price momentum. I find that large stocks offer little profits to score-based portfolio strategies. Most of the abnormal returns are concentrated on small firms. The evidence is strongly supportive of a market underreaction to the financial information released by smaller lightly researched firms.