Sawyer Capital ManagementExplaining The Value Premium – Sawyer Capital Management https://www.sawcap.com Evolutionize Web Site Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:30:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.22 Explaining The Value Premium https://www.sawcap.com/2015/01/05/explaining-value-premium/ https://www.sawcap.com/2015/01/05/explaining-value-premium/#respond Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:00:56 +0000 http://evolvemypractice.com/?p=1584 The existence of a value premium—the difference in returns between high book-to-market stocks and low book-to-market stocks—has been well-documented. However, there’s a major controversy as to its source. Some believe it can be explained by risk—that value stocks are the stocks of riskier companies. On the other hand, behavioralists believe the premium results from pricing...

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]]> The existence of a value premium—the difference in returns between high book-to-market stocks and low book-to-market stocks—has been well-documented. However, there’s a major controversy as to its source.

Some believe it can be explained by risk—that value stocks are the stocks of riskier companies. On the other hand, behavioralists believe the premium results from pricing mistakes—that investors tend to persistently overprice growth stocks and underprice value stocks.

Digging Into The Research

Recently, I was discussing this puzzle with a friend, which led me to dig into my files to review the literature. Among the papers I thought were of interest was “The Value Premium and Economic Activity: Long-run Evidence from the United States.”

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