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Using residual income to refine the relationship between earnings growth and stock returns

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  • Sudhakar Balachandran

    (Columbia Business School)

  • Partha Mohanram

    (Rotman School of Business)

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We use residual income (RI) to decompose earnings growth into growth in RI, growth in invested capital and other components and use this decomposition to explain stock returns. Our approach provides a significant increase in explanatory power vis-à-vis a regression of returns on levels and changes in earnings. While the market values growth in RI more than growth in invested capital, it still undervalues growth in RI and overvalues growth in invested capital. Earnings growth from growth in RI is more persistent, while earnings growth from growth in invested capital is more likely to reverse. Future returns are positively associated with growth in RI and negatively associated with growth in invested capital. A trading rule based on these findings generates significant hedge returns that persist after controlling for known risk factors. Hence, RI, a measure long recommended by accountants, allows investors to differentiate and evaluate different sources of earnings growth.

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  • Sudhakar Balachandran & Partha Mohanram, 2012. "Using residual income to refine the relationship between earnings growth and stock returns," Review of Accounting Studies, Springer, vol. 17(1), pages 134-165, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:reaccs:v:17:y:2012:i:1:d:10.1007_s11142-011-9168-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s11142-011-9168-1
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