The Effect of Earnings Permanence, Growth, and Firm Size on the Usefulness of Cash Flows and Earnings in Explaining Security Returns: Empirical Evidence for the UK

Andreas Charitou, Colin Clubb and Andreas Andreou

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2001, vol. 28, issue 5‐6, 563-594

Abstract: This paper examines the relative information content of earnings and cash flows for security returns using a methodology incorporating contextual factors which may affect earnings and cash flow response coefficients. For our UK dataset, we provide evidence that the earnings coefficient is related to earnings permanence, growth and firm size and that the cash flow coefficient may be related to growth. Although our results emphasise the value relevance of earnings, they also suggest that both contemporaneous and prior period cash flow are positively related to security returns and that market‐to‐book and market value of equity have predictive power for returns.

Date: 2001
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