Purpose: This study is intends to understand and document the impact of market-based — market returns and momentum — as well as firm-specific — size, book to market ratio (B/M), price to earnings ratio (PER) and cash flow (CF) — factors on pricing of Shari'a compliant securities as...

This study documents the asset pricing mechanism of Sharīʿah compliant securities listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange. We select the CAPM market model to test for the impact in variations of stock returns on a sample of Sharīʿah-compliant companies on ten years monthly data (2001-10). We...