Value-Glamour and Accruals Mispricing: One Anomaly or Two?

49 Pages Posted: 15 Jun 2002

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Hemang Desai

Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department

Shivaram Rajgopal

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation

Mohan Venkatachalam

Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

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Date Written: June 2002

Abstract

We investigate whether the accruals anomaly documented by Sloan (1996) in the accounting literature is distinct from the value-glamour anomaly documented in the finance literature. We find that the accruals strategy earns abnormal returns incremental to past sales growth, book-to-market and earnings-to-price proxies of value-glamour. However, after controlling for the cash flow-to-price ratio, we do not observe any relation between accruals and future abnormal returns. Hence, it appears that the mispricing attributed to accruals is a manifestation of mispricing related to the cash flow-to-price proxy of the value-glamour phenomenon.

JEL Classification: G14, M41

Suggested Citation

Desai, Hemang and Rajgopal, Shivaram and Venkatachalam, Mohan, Value-Glamour and Accruals Mispricing: One Anomaly or Two? (June 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=315049 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.315049

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