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Showing posts with label superior returns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label superior returns. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 May 2010

You Don’t Need Perfect Batting Average

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You Don’t Need Perfect Batting Average:  In order to significantly outperform the market, investors need not generate near perfect results. ...
Friday, 12 June 2009

Investment Strategy and Superior Returns

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"Style investing," where money managers rotate between small and large, and value and growth stocks, is all rage on Wall Street. H...

IPOs and Superior Returns

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IPOs always have fascinated investors. New companies are launched with enthusiasm and hope that they can turn into the next Microsoft or In...

High Dividend Yields and Superior Returns

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Another favourite value-based criterion for choosing stocks is dividend yields. More recent studies by James O'Shaughnessy have shown th...

Price-to-book ratios and Superior Returns

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PE ratios are not the only value-based criterion for buying stocks. A number of academic papers, begining with Dennis Stattman's in 198...

Low PE stocks and Superior Returns

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In the late 1970s, Sanjoy Basu, building on the work of S.F. Nicholson in 1960, discovered that stocks with low PE ratios have significantly...

Small Cap Stocks and Superior Returns

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In 1981, Rolf Banz, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, investigated the returns on stocks using the database provided by the C...

Distressed Firms and Superior Returns

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Despite the higher returns provided by value-based firms, there is one class of stocks, those of distressed firms, that has achieved some fo...

What factors can investors use to choose individual stocks with superior returns?

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What factors can investors use to choose individual stocks with superior returns? Earnings Dividends Cash flows Book values Capitalization P...