Purpose: The aim of our paper is twofold. First, we examine the predictive ability of log bookmarket, dividend …-price, earnings-price and dividend-earnings ratios on the most recent data set of the strongest securities in the UK economy; unlike … the majority of the studies in this data set, our analysis is not limited on returns but further investigates dividend and …

Even in large equity markets, the dividend-price ratio is significantly related with the growth of future dividends. In … with within-year seasonality. We reduce the effect of price volatility on the dividend-price ratio by applying a simple … smoothing technique, and we identify the component of the smoothed dividend-price ratio that offers predictive power. An …

of the classical log dividend–price ratio, we allow the data to reveal the cointegration vector between d and p. We … define the modified dividend–price ratio (mdp), as the long run trend deviation between d and p. Using S&P 500 data for the … correlation with the risk free return component, and can discern if a low dividend state coincides with a low yield state …

apply tests of monotonic relation. The principal findings are as follows. The high dividend stocks perform markedly better … supplemented with the evidence of monotonic relation: the higher dividend yields, the higher mean returns. However, the abnormal … returns related to dividend yields are characteristic largely only for big- and midcaps. We find very weak evidence for the …