Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk

Josef Lakonishok, Robert Vishny and Andrei Shleifer

No 4360, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: For many years, stock market analysts have argued that value strategies outperform the market. These value strategies call for buying stocks that have low prices relative to earnings, dividends, book assets, or other measures of fundamental value. While there is some agreement that value strategies produce higher returns, the interpretation of why they do so is more controversial. This paper provides evidence that value strategies yield higher returns because these strategies exploit the mistakes of the typical investor and not because these strategies are fundamentally riskier.

Date: 1993-05
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Published as Journal of Finance, December 1994, Vol. XLIX, No. 5, pp. 1541-1578.

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