This study is an investigation of the factors affecting the average returns of stocks that were traded on the Athens Stock Exchange for the period July 2004 - June 2011. The methodological approach is similar to that applied by Fama and French (1992), in the first stage, stocks are grouped into...

Abstract: The amount of literature on factors that explain the cross-sectional variation in average returns is vast, however, the majority of these papers attempt to explain the variation of returns in developed and emerging markets. In that sense, the literature lacks sufficient evidence...

This study aims to analyze and test empirically the influence of corporate financial performance against systematic risk on stocks. The analysis technique used is multiple linear regression. The results showed that the financial performance did not significantly affect the systematic risk of the...