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- External Financing and Future Stock Returns
- This article explains about development of a comprehensive and parsimonious measure of the extent to which a firm is raising distributing capital from to capital market participants. It is shown that the relation between the measure of net external financing and future stock returns is stronger than has been documented...
- White papers 2003-02-01
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- Idiosyncratic Volatility, Stock Market Volatility, And Expected Stock Returns
- "Theories suggest that both stock market risk and idiosyncratic risk are important determinants of the equity premium but empirical evidence is inconclusive. This paper shows that the (value-weighted) idiosyncratic stock volatility in conjunction with aggregate stock market volatility exhibits strong predictive abilities for excess stock market returns. Consistent with the...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Empirical Evidence on the Relation Between Stock Option Compensation and Risk Taking
- The paper examines whether executive stock options ESOs provide managers with incentives to invest in risky projects. For a sample of oil and gas producers, we examine whether the coefficient of variation of future cash flows from exploration activity our proxy for exploration risk increases with the sensitivity of the...
- White papers 2001-10-26
- Stock of the Week Winning Streak Now Up to 13 Weeks
- Bill Luby submits: At the end of May, in VIX and More Stock of the Week Selection Up 343% in 14 Months, I promised to post future Stock of the Week (SOTW) selections here on the site one day after I flagged them in the subscriber newsletter as long...
- External links 2009-06-09
- The Dish on Diversification
- Yes, the strategy failed you in the crash, as virtually every asset class except Treasuries took a heart-stopping dive. But if you're hoping to climb out of the hole, it's still your best alternative. Why now may be the time to begin buying stocks, REITs and commodities again... It's...
- Articles 2009-03-27
- Yahoo stock: Still not worth it
- Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is stepping down and Carol Bartz has taken the reins as the company's new CEO. Most hope that she can fix Yahoo and return it to the place of dominance it once enjoyed. Or failing that, at least move it back into favor with shareholders. This...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Calculating Return on Investment
- Return on Investment is one of several profitability ratios, one of the four basic classes of financial ratios—the others being liquidity ratios, activity ratios and debt ratios. This, the Return on Investment, often called a company's return on total assets, measures the overall profit made on an investment expressed as...
- Articles 2007-06-26
- Assessing Risk-adjusted Rate of Return
- Risk-adjusted Rate of Return is a performance measure that adjusts for the initial risk an investor takes at the time of a purchase.Every investor works with risk, but if they can quantify it, they should be able to make more informed decisions about which risks are worth taking. Calculating risk-adjusted...
- Articles 2007-12-12
- The Future of Investing
- Want to pick a date for the stock market to get back to its 2007 high? You may need a calendar that goes to 2017. ...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- The 5 Scariest Threats to Your Financial Future
- Never mind the Halloween ghosts and goblins. Here are five year-round portfolio perils that should really frighten you. We?ll show you how to avoid them. 1. ‘No Risk, Big...
- Articles 2009-10-23
- Manitowoc: Cyclical Bottom, Building a Higher Future
- Chuck Carnevale submits:Historical Perspective Manitowoc MTW, as the dominant manufacturer of building cranes, has long been considered a cyclical company. In recent times, the company has been working to reduce the cyclicality of their business. They divested their legacy Manitowoc Marine business and greatly expanded their Manitowoc’s Foodservice business with...
- External links 2009-10-29
- Company Stock and Pension Plan Diversification
- This chapter makes two contributions. First, it develops a measure of the diversification level in a DC plan participant's portfolio. This measure computes how much additional risk reduction can be had by reallocating investments among the choices permitted within the DC plan, without changing the expected return of the currently...
- White papers 2002-10-07
- Lessons from Your '08 Return
- Your 2008 taxes are done. Congrats! But you're not done yet. This is the perfect time to look for ways to lower your 2009 taxes, while you have all your records and forms handy. The sooner you get started, the more you'll save. ...
- Articles 2009-04-03
- The Benefits Of Long/Short Investment Strategies In A Low-Return Stock Market Environment
- The goal of long/short strategies is generally to invest in undervalued stocks and to sell short overvalued stocks, thus achieving absolute positive returns and less risk than the overall market. Most long/short managers tend to be net long over a period of time ƒ{ƒn that is, they usually have a...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Market Reactions to Tangible and Intangible Information
- This paper decomposes stock returns into components attributable to tangible and intangible information. A firm's tangible return is the component of its return attributable to fundamental accounting-performance information, and its intangible return is the component which is orthogonal to this information. The evidence indicates that intangible information reliably predicts future...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Anomalies
- This paper constructs a neoclassical, Q-theoretical foundation for time-varying expected returns in connection with corporate policies and events. Under certain conditions, stock return equals investment return, which is directly tied with firm characteristics. This single equation is shown analytically to be qualitatively consistent with many anomalies, including the relations of...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Zaba, Salcido will return to CC
- Goalie Matt Zaba and defenseman Brian Salcido plan to return for their senior seasons at Colorado College despite their sudden rise in NHL stock. Coming off a steady season in which he went 20-14-2 and posted four shutouts, Zaba is ranked as the Los Angeles Kings' second-best...
- Research articles 2006-03-30
- Does Idiosyncratic Risk Matter: Another Look
- This paper shows that the equal-weighted average stock volatility analyzed and forecasts stock returns because of its co-movements with stock market volatility. Moreover, contrary to the positive relation hypothesized and it was found that the value-weighted average stock volatility is negatively related to future stock returns when combined with stock...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Will the MacWorld Expo Apple Stock Correlation Continue?
- Stockerblog submits: I started writing about the MacWorld Expo Apple AAPL Stock correlation back in January 14, 2007, in an article called the 'MacWorld Expo Apple Stock Price Indicator' which I have been following for years. This is the stock trend which has historically shown that the price of Apple...
- External links 2008-10-29
- The Future Is Now
- The article explains about the Single-stock futures that can offer a relatively simple, inexpensive way to hedge appreciated positions in client portfolios. Hedging with security futures is very efficient and very low risk if you ignore the question of when to hedge. It's here where advisers add value by helping...
- White papers 2003-06-01
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