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Chan, Konan - 2001

An exclusive focus on bottom-line income misses important information about the quality of earnings. Accruals (the difference between accounting earnings and cash flow) are reliably, negatively associated with future stock returns. Earnings increases that are accompanied by high accruals,...

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The Level and Persistence of Growth Rates

Chan, Louis K.C. - 2001

Expected long-term earnings growth rates are crucial inputs to valuation models and for cost of capital estimates. We analyze historical long-term growth rates across a broad cross-section of stocks using several operating performance indicators. We test whether growth persists, and whether it...

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Stock Repurchases in Canada : Performance and Strategic Trading

Ikenberry, David - 1999

report how many shares they repurchase on a monthly basis. We find that managers are sensitive to mispricing as completion … movements; managers buy more shares when prices fall and reduce their buying when prices rise …

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The Stock Market Valuation of Research and Development Expenditures

Chan, Louis K.C. - 1999

We examine whether stock prices fully reflect the value of firms' intangible assets, focusing on research and development (R&D). Since intangible assets are not reported on financial statements under current U.S. accounting standards and R&D spending is expensed, the valuation problem may be...

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On Portfolio Optimization : Forecasting Covariances and Choosing the Risk Model

Chan, Louis K.C. - 1999

We evaluate the performance of different models for the covariance structure of stock returns, focusing on their use for optimal portfolio selection. Comparisons are based on forecasts of future covariances as well as the out-of-sample volatility of optimized portfolios from each model. A few...

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The Risk and Return from Factors

Chan, Louis K. C. - 1997

The ability to identify which factors best capture systematic return covariation is central to applications of multifactor pricing models. This paper uses a common data set to evaluate the performance of various proposed factors in capturing return comovements. Factors associated with the...

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Momentum Strategies

Chan, Louis K. C. - 1995

We relate the predictability of future returns from past returns to the market's underreaction to information, focusing on past earnings news. Past return and past earnings surprise each predict large drifts in future returns after controlling for the other. There is little evidence of...

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Good News for Value Stocks : Further Evidence on Market Efficiency

Porta, Rafael La - 1995

This paper examines the hypothesis that the superior return to so-called value stocks is the result of expectational errors made by investors. We study stock price reactions around earnings announcements for value and glamour stocks over a 5 year period after portfolio formation. The...

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Market Underreaction to Open Market Share Repurchases

Ikenberry, David - 1994

We examine long-run firm performance following open market share repurchase announcements which occurred during the period 1980 to 1990. We find that the average abnormal four-year buy-and-hold return measured after the initial announcement is 12.1 percent. For `value' stocks, companies more...

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Do Institutional Investors Destabilize Stock Prices? Evidence on Herding and Feedback Trading

Lakonishok, Josef - 1991

evaluate the potential effect of their trading on stock prices. We address two aspects of trading by money managers: herding …, which refers to buying (selling) the same stocks as other managers buy (sell) at the same time; and positive … of substantial herding or positive-feedback trading by pension fund managers, except in small stocks. Also, there is no …

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