Earnings and Expected Returns
The aggregate dividend payout ratio forecasts excess returns on both stocks and corporate bonds in postwar U.S. data. High dividends forecast high returns. High earnings forecast low returns. The correlation of earnings with business conditions gives them predictive power for returns; they contain information about future returns that is not captured by other variables. Dividends and earnings contribute substantial explanatory power at short horizons. For forecasting long-horizon returns, however, only (scaled) stock prices matter. Forecasts of low long-horizon stock returns in the mid-1990s are caused not by earnings or dividends, but by high stock prices. Copyright The American Finance Association 1998.
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1998
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Authors: | Lamont, Owen |
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Journal of Finance. - American Finance Association - AFA, ISSN 1540-6261. - Vol. 53.1998, 5, p. 1563-1587
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American Finance Association - AFA |
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