Stock market evidence shows that momentum profits are lower among dividend-paying firms than their non-paying counterparts due to differences in losers' returns. Additionally, dividend maintenance is associated with higher returns for losers but not for winners. Finally, buying winners that...

Recent evidence indicates that momentum profits are sensitive to market conditions. We find that the profits are higher when the markets continue in the same state than when they transition to a different state. These findings support Daniel, Hirshleifer, and Subrahmanyam (1998), who suggest...