Current R&D expenditures forecast cash-based operating profitability up to three years in the future and sometimes as … profitability factor, and zero alphas. Capitalizing R&D to augment book values with intangible assets is unnecessary for asset … pricing, so long as expected profitability is explicitly recognized as a determinant of expected returns …

estimated. Using the full rainfall distribution and our profit function estimates, we find that Indian farmers on average under … expected profits. Farmers who use skilled forecasts have increased average profit levels but also have more variable profits …

This study investigates how returns on the S&P 500 (SP) dynamically respond to the aggregate corporate profit growth …

. The growth rate in the number of labor hours per worker does not appear to be related to future profitability …

This study examines the determinants of profitability using the US Compustat database during the period 1976-2009. The …. Besides the conventional drivers of profitability a relatedness measure of technology based on patents is explored too, in … business lines and production chains. The drivers of profitability in lags are examined in order to account for their …