Momentum Strategies

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Louis K.C. Chan

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance

Narasimhan Jegadeesh

Emory University - Department of Finance

Josef Lakonishok

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: December 1995

Abstract

We relate the predictability of future returns from past returns to the market's underreaction to information, focusing on past earnings news. Past return and past earnings surprise each predict large drifts in future returns after controlling for the other. There is little evidence of subsequent reversals in the returns of stocks with high price and earnings momentum. Market risk, size and book-to- market effects do not explain the drifts. Security analysts' earnings forecasts also respond sluggishly to past news, especially in the case of stocks with the worst past performance. The results suggest a market that responds only gradually to new information.

Suggested Citation

Chan, Louis K.C. and Jegadeesh, Narasimhan and Lakonishok, Josef, Momentum Strategies (December 1995). NBER Working Paper No. w5375, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=225438

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