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Problems in measuring portfolio performance An application to contrarian investment strategies
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We document problems in measuring raw and abnormal five-year contrarian portfolio returns. ‘Loser’ stocks are low-priced and exhibit skewed return distributions. Their 163% mean return is due largely to their lowest-price quartile position. A $18-th price increase reduces the mean by 25%, highlighting their sensitivity to micro-structure/liquidity effects. Long positions in low-priced loser stocks occur disproportionately after bear markets and thus induce expected-return effects. A contrarian portfolio formed at June-end earns negative abnormal returns, in contrast with the December-end portfolio. This conclusion is not limited to a particular version of the CAPM.
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- Authors
- Ball, R., Kothari, S. P., & Shanken, J.
- Venue
- Journal of Financial Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1995-05
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 79-107
- ISSN
- 0304-405X (ISSN-L)
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- W2111230345
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- 368
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 36.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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