Recent studies have used the value spread to predict aggregate stock returns to construct cash-flow betas that appear to explain the size and value anomalies. We show that two related variables, the book-to-market spread (the book-to-market of value stocks minus that of growth stocks) and the...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the stock return's predictability by using financial ratios and control variable of PSX 100 Index companies during period from 2001-2014. The current study mainly focuses on investigating better predictor of stock returns. The methodology is based on...

This study attempts to investigate financial ratios' predictive power, using the yearly time series data during the period of 2012-2017 for 33 listed manufacturing companies in Colombo Stock Exchange. This study specifically identifies the financial ratios, which are acknowledged as the...

We study whether a large set of financial ratios provides valuable information about future excess stock returns. Confronted with a data-rich environment, we propose a novel ``divide and conquer" methodology that allows to efficiently retain all of the information available to investors. In...