We explore the effects of fundamental extrapolation on stock returns. Empirically, we propose a novel approach to extrapolate firms' fundamental information and find that a strategy based on fundamental extrapolation earns an average return of 0.80% per month. Theoretically, we show that...

Using time-series trends of a set of firms' major fundamentals, we find that there is a fundamentalmomentum in the stock market. Buying stocks in the top quintile of fundamental trends and selling stocks in the bottom quintile earns a monthly average return of 0.88%, whose magnitude is...