Scale or yield? A present-value identity

Thummim Cho, Lukas Kremens, Dongryeol Lee and Christopher Polk

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Abstract: We propose a loglinear present-value identity in which investment (“scale”), profitability (“yield”), and discount rates determine a firm’s market-to-book ratio. Our identity reconciles existing influential market-to-book decompositions and facilitates novel insights from three empirical applications: (1) Both investment and profitability are important contributors to the value spread and stock return news variance. (2) Any cross-sectional return predictability has a mirror image in cash-flow fundamentals, providing asset pricing theories with additional moments to match. (3) The investment spread significantly improves the predictability of time-series variation in the value premium and justifies the poor performance of value in recent years.

JEL-codes: G11 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2024-03-01
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Published in Review of Financial Studies, 1, March, 2024, 37(3), pp. 950 – 988. ISSN: 0893-9454

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