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A Five-Factor Asset Pricing Model
A five-factor model directed at capturing the size, value, profitability, and investment patterns in average stock returns performs better than the three-factor model of Fama and French (FF 1993).…
Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies
Previous work shows that average returns on common stocks are related to firm characteristics like size, earnings/price, cash flow/price, book-to-market equity, past sales growth, long-term past…
The Cross‐Section of Expected Stock Returns
Two easily measured variables, size and book-to-market equity, combine to capture the cross-sectional variation in average stock returns associated with market 3, size, leverage, book-to-market…
Disappearing Dividends: Changing Firm Characteristics or Lower Propensity to Pay?
Abstract The proportion of firms paying cash dividends falls from 66.5% in 1978 to 20.8% in 1999, due in part to the changing characteristics of publicly traded firms. Fed by new listings, the…
Size and Book-to-Market Factors in Earnings and Returns
The authors study whether the behavior of stock prices, in relation to size and book-to-market equity (BE/ME), reflects the behavior of earnings. Consistent with rational pricing, high BE/ME signals…
Testing Tradeoff and Pecking Order Predictions About Dividends and Debt
Confirming predictions shared by the trade-off and pecking order models, more profitable firms and firms with fewer investments have higher dividend payouts. Confirming the pecking order model but…
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