Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 12 No. 1 1983
The relationship between earnings' yield, market value and return for NYSE common stocks
Abstract
The empirical relationship between earnings' yield, firm size and returns on the common stock of NYSE firms is examined in this paper. The results confirm that the common stock of high E/P firms earn, on average, higher risk-adjusted returns than the common stock of low E/P firms and that this effect is clearly significant even if experimental control is exercised over differences in firm size. On the other hand, while the common stock of small NYSE firms appear to have earned substantially higher returns than the common stock of large NYSE firms, the size effect virtually disappears when returns are controlled for differences in risk and E/P ratios. The evidence presented here indicates that the E/P effect, however, is not entirely independent of firm size and that the effect of both variables on expected returns is considerably more complicated than previously documented in the literature.
- DOI
- 10.1016/0304-405x(83)90031-4
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 129-156
- Language
- en
- Sources
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