Fundamental Extrapolation and Stock Returns

European Finance Association 2020 Annual Meeting; American Finance Association 2022 Annual Meeting

74 Pages Posted: 16 Oct 2020 Last revised: 18 Jan 2022

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Dashan Huang

Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business

Huacheng Zhang

University of Edinburgh Business School

Guofu Zhou

Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School

Yingzi Zhu

Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management

Date Written: August 21, 2020

Abstract

We propose an economic objective-driven pooling strategy to extrapolate multiple fundamentals simultaneously. This strategy outperforms naive extrapolation strategies that use a single fundamental variable and strategies that use past prices or analyst forecasts, and performs similarly as a machine learning-based pooling strategy. We propose a model to show that fundamental extrapolation has dual price effects: a cash flow effect that pushes stock price up relative to its fundamental value and a discount rate effect that depresses stock price via increasing the expected volatility. Our empirical results suggest that the discount rate effect dominates the cash flow effect.

Keywords: Fundamental Extrapolation; Return Extrapolation; Volatility; Expectation

JEL Classification: G41, G14

Suggested Citation

Huang, Dashan and Zhang, Huacheng and Zhou, Guofu and Zhu, Yingzi, Fundamental Extrapolation and Stock Returns (August 21, 2020). European Finance Association 2020 Annual Meeting; American Finance Association 2022 Annual Meeting, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3678363 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3678363

Dashan Huang

Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business ( email )

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Huacheng Zhang

University of Edinburgh Business School ( email )

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Guofu Zhou (Contact Author)

Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School ( email )

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Yingzi Zhu

Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management ( email )

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China
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