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Earnings Quality and Book-to-Market in the Cross Section of Expected Returns

Multinational Finance Journal, ISSN: 1096-1879, Vol: 23, Issue: 3-4, Page: 169-210
2019
  • 1
    Citations
  • 1,120
    Usage
  • 24
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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Metrics Details

  • Citations
    1
    • Citation Indexes
      1
  • Usage
    1,120
    • Abstract Views
      926
    • Downloads
      194
  • Captures
    24
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      314,404

Article Description

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether earnings quality contributes to the book-to-market’s predictive power in the cross section of stock returns. Earnings quality is embedded in the value-growth effect given that retained earnings is a key part of the book value of equity. Earnings quality reflects the effects of managerial discretion on reported earnings, which has been shown to be associated with both risk and behavioral biases in asset pricing. Our results affirm the existence of a value premium and show that the value premium is more pronounced within poor earnings quality stocks. Moreover, we find that poor earnings quality contributes to the value premium mainly through the pricing of growth stocks. Our results suggest that the quality of reported earnings has an incremental role in shaping expected returns of value versus growth stocks. (JEL: G12, M41).

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