The Role of Expectations in Explaining the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 149-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Copeland ◽  
Aaron Dolgoff ◽  
Alberto Moel
1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven L. Heston ◽  
K. Geert Rouwenhorst ◽  
Roberto E. Wessels

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 749-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenos Trigeorgis ◽  
Neophytos Lambertides

AbstractWe extend the Fama-French (1992) model by considering growth option (as well as distress/leverage) variables in explaining the cross section of stock returns. We find that growth option variables, namely growth in capital investment and yet-unexercised growth options (GO), are significantly and negatively related to stock returns. Investors may be willing to accept lower average returns from growth stocks in exchange for a more favorable (positively skewed) risk-return profile. Book-to-market (BM) ratio seems to proxy for omitted distress/leverage variables. When these are explicitly accounted for, BM is not that significant. Our growth options variables have added explanatory power.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Li ◽  
Geng Li

Abstract Theoretical models have long recognized the role of investor disagreements in the marketplace, but little evidence is documented regarding how belief dispersion affects trading activities in the broad equity market. Using over three decades of data from a survey of US households, we introduced a novel measure of household macroeconomic belief dispersion and document its positive relationship with market-wide stock trading volume, even after controlling for an array of professional analysts’ belief dispersion. Results are more pronounced for the belief dispersion among households who are more likely to own stocks. Furthermore, we show that the household belief dispersion is priced in the cross-section of stock returns, whereas that among professional analysts is not.


CFA Digest ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-56
Author(s):  
Kathryn Dixon Jost

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