Predicting Asset Price Movements With A High Degree Of

The weekly performance of IBM stock presented a contestant growth. One highlight of the falling of stock price in the 6th week in the investment period was when IBM presented the 3rd quarter financial report. The investors weren’t satisfied with the profit report which they expected to be better especially when other IT companies were doing well in the 3rd quarter. One mistake I made was that I didn’t follow closely to the financial report of the company; therefore, I missed the peak of the stock price. From this experience, I learned that financial reports and current news are important indicators of the stock price. By following closely to the current event and analyzing the financial report, investors can maximize the profit and also become more familiar to the market.

The research shows that the earnings announcements of firms within an industry can impact the share prices of other firms in the same industry. This effect has been labelled as the ‘information transfer effect’. The ‘information transfer effect’ highlights the belief that share prices react to public information emanating from various sources—including

When analysts question a firm’s earnings quality, it raises concerns regarding under or over aggressive accounting practices that may be allowing the firm to manipulate the earnings. Earnings quality is defined as the strength of the current earnings in being used to predict future earnings and cash flows. Since earning quality is indicative of future performance, analysts are more likely to address issues that have substantial impact on the earnings quality. An issue arises when the nature of the earnings is questioned. While permanent earnings are part of normal operations, any irregular, one time earnings can skew the earnings, making the firm look more profitable than it is. This is due to the inability to recreate similar one-time transactions that will give rise to such numbers. Investors prefer predictable

The authors jointly examine momentum and value in eight different markets and asset classes. Asness, Moskowitz and Pederson found two main phenomena associated with returns across 8 various markets and asset classes in their research. These findings challenge previous, well-established theories, like the existence of significant premia in value and momentum return strategies across asset classes and global markets. This innovative research includes some new asset classes not previously used, such as government bonds, currencies, and commodities. The authors look to prove the

Such an intense focus has been placed on quarterly earnings as an indication of a company’s success by everyone from analysts to executives that ethics have for the most part been thrown out the window, sacrificed to the all important number, i.e. earnings per share. This is the theory in Alex Berenson’s book “The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America.” This number has become part of a game to be played, a figure to be manipulated – beat the number and Wall Street all but throws a parade, miss it and a company’s stock may be abandoned. Take into account the incentives that executives have to beat the number and one can find plenty of reasons to manage earnings.

Investors often come to believe that a stock is undervalued or overvalued compared to other stocks in its industrial group. To calculate an alternate target price for the current and next fiscal year based on those beliefs, investors can apply the average PE multiple for a company 's industrial group to the average professional analyst 's earnings estimate for the company in those periods. Valuation using the industry 's

A great number of studies further identified several factors which particularly concerns market capitalisation, effective of stock market, etc., which explains the dynamic forces of stocks returns during the earnings announcements date in an organised manner. For instance, Atiase (1985) found that unexpected information pass on to the market by actual earnings report is inversely correlated to the company’s capitalisation. Grant (1990) observed that the market in which a company’s securities are traded often determined the behaviour of stocks return around the earnings announcements. Several other studies have aimed to organise for synchronise factors by using time series data such as intra-day and daily data. However, a fairly number of more robust studies has examined the information content of macroeconomics news releases. Elsharkawy and Garrod (1996), Pope and Inyangete (1992).

The correlation between the market portfolio and HML and the correlation between intercept and HML is -0.335 and -0.070, which indicates a moderate negative relationship between market portfolio and HML, and weak negative relationship between intercept and HML. Also, the correlations between the market portfolio and SMB, and between the SMB and HML are 0.348 and 0.191 respectively, which means that there are some positive relationships between them.

Jim Cramer called out to investors to be wary this week since it will be the period when several earnings announcements will be made. The financial guru pointed out that the news will be littered with haphazard headlines that claim to describe a company’s performance for a particular quarter and a single mistake can cause investors millions. CNBC shares Jim Cramer's insight on rolling the dice as an investment

Financial factor models are developed in an attempt to answer the question: ‘What really generates performance?’ Production Alpha models are rich and powerful, however, it is still a subset of information that has return and risk implication, many other investment signals should not be ignored. Therefore, the motivation of my project is to build, analyze, and monitor a factor library that satisfies the following criteria: First, it has a rich set of factors covering full spectrum of alphas and risks; second, it can be viewed as a robust and scalable platform that not only can build and maintain factors, but also can be used to analyze factors behaviors and fund exposures. The goal of the project is to trace insightful connection between the return of equity and the underlying factors to find out which factors generate returns for stocks. A factor can be thought of as any characteristics relating a portfolio of securities that is important in explaining their performance

As a PhD candidate in Finance, I want to continue my research on earnings revision and earnings surprises as well as investigate other factors of return predictability related to size, profitability, and momentum. In addition, my other research interests are in (1) investments, (2) hedge funds and mutual funds, and (3) applications of machine learning in finance.

The success of the model is attributed to Yale’s ability to combine both quantitative analysis (mean-variance analysis) with market judgments to structure its portfolio. In addition, Yale also uses statistical analysis to actively test their models with factors affecting the market, therefore understanding the sensitivity of their portfolio in response to various market changes. Yale also follows and forecasts the cash flow of private equity and real assets in its portfolio to decide the need for hedging.

For many people, the idea of sifting through financial reports on a regular basis is something of great abhorrence to them, and yet if you wish to invest in winning shares, you have to do a “fair” amount of research and work. However, you do not need fancy qualifications, and there are plenty of intelligent people that make highly complex models that are useless. What you need to do is find a happy middle ground where you are neither doing too little or suffering from paralysis by analysis.

As such, alpha is a measure of security selection skill and the so-called active return on investment, and so is difficult and expensive to obtain. In contrast, beta is easy to gain exposure to through index funds (such as exchange-traded funds), which give investors cheap access to market returns. But as we’ve already seen, replicating benchmarks based on market capitalisation weightings carries several disadvantages for Buy and Maintain investors. Smart beta benchmarks were developed to address the shortcomings of traditional market weighted benchmarks.

Key Words: Financial Momentum Effect, Momentum Strategy, Market Efficiency Hypothesis, Fama-French Three Factors Model, Behavioral Finance