Purpose This study aims to use gray models to predict abnormal stock returns. Design/methodology/approach Data are collected from listed companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2005-2015. The analyses portray three models, namely, the gray model, the nonlinear gray Bernoulli model and the...

Purpose – This study aims to use gray models to predict abnormal stock returns.Design/methodology/approach – Data are collected from listed companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2005-2015. The analyses portray three models, namely, the gray model, the nonlinear gray Bernoulli model...

Balance sheet and income statement provide potentially vast volumes of information. Despite the large number of predictive variables, in most cases, the user cannot make a judgment easily about the survival of a company. In this paper, we indicate a set of useful variables for failure prediction...