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Journal of Finance Vol. 47 No. 2 1992

The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns.

Eugene F. Fama; Kenneth R. French

Abstract

Two easily measured variables, size and book-to-market equity, combine to capture the cross-sectional variation in average stock returns associated with market "beta", size, leverage, book-to-market equity, and earnings-price ratios. Moreover, when the tests allow for variation in "beta" that is unrelated to size, t he relation between market "beta" and average return is flat, even when "beta" is the only explanatory variable.

Volume
47
Issue
2
Pages
427-65
Sources
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