AccrualsBM · Valuation · Bartov and Kim (2004)

Book-to-market and accruals

Long minus short portfolio using the original paper's sort and weighting, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1964Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per quarter
Next quarter
3.57%
95% interval 2.10% to 5.08%
Next year
3.59%
95% interval 2.03% to 5.07%
Next five years
3.63%
95% interval 1.81% to 5.13%

OAP publishes no uniform quintile or decile portfolios for this signal, so only the paper's original portfolio convention is shown.

Cumulative market-adjusted return

+770,153% since 1964Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1964Q3–2024Q4 17.16% 20.94% 0.82 6.36
2020Q1–2024Q4 18.53% 21.89% 0.85 1.89
2024Q1–2024Q4 24.91% 25.15% 0.99 0.99

Forecast Sharpe ratio, per quarter

Horizon Mean 95% interval P(neg)
Next quarter 0.342 0.202 – 0.483 0.00
Next year 0.343 0.194 – 0.484 0.00
Next five years 0.346 0.172 – 0.490 0.00
Category
Valuation
Form
Discrete
Data
Accounting
Predicted sign
Positive
Original sample
1980–1998