Several institutions issue rankings based on the accuracy of price and EPS forecasts. Given that these rankings are ex-post they may not be able useful to investors. In this paper we show that trading strategies based on perfect foresight and past rankings outperform a passive strategy. In...

Multiples such as D/P, P/E, and CAPE are useful when forecasting long-term returns, and largely useless when forecasting short-term returns. Given this mixed forecasting ability, the issue addressed in this article is whether these multiples can be used to devise successful asset allocation...