Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to investigate the relation between the value/growth anomaly and the external financing anomaly by considering an expanded value/growth indicator: free cash flow yield (free cash flows scaled by price). Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilizes...

In this paper, we show that the negative relation of net operating assets (NOA) with future stock returns first documented by Hirshleifer et al. (2004) applies to both net working and investing pieces of NOA, while it is mostly driven by asset NOA components. Predictability of returns is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the informational content of retained and distributed earnings for future profitability and stock returns. Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilizes firm-level cross-sectional persistent regressions, Mishkin's econometric framework and...

This paper, builds on the work of Hirshleifer, Hou, Teoh and Zhang (Journal of Accounting and Economics, 38, 2004) on the NOA (net operating assets) anomaly. After controlling for current profitability, we find a strong negative relation of NOA with future stock returns. Moreover, the results...

We examine the `relative optimality' of sign predictions for financial returns, extending the work of Christoffersen and Diebold (2006) on volatility dynamics and sign predictability. We show that there is a more general decomposition of financial returns than that implied by the sign...