ConvDebt · External financing · Valta (2016)

Convertible debt indicator

Long minus short portfolio using the original paper's sort and weighting, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1951Q1 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per quarter
Next quarter
1.09%
95% interval 0.82% to 1.36%
Next year
1.03%
95% interval 0.71% to 1.35%
Next five years
0.85%
95% interval 0.37% to 1.31%

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

+2,252% since 1951Q1 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1951Q1–2024Q4 4.46% 5.73% 0.78 6.70
2020Q1–2024Q4 5.22% 7.43% 0.70 1.57
2024Q1–2024Q4 7.35% 12.29% 0.60 0.60

Forecast Sharpe ratio, per quarter

Horizon Mean 95% interval P(neg)
Next quarter 0.387 0.290 – 0.484 0.00
Next year 0.363 0.250 – 0.477 0.00
Next five years 0.298 0.127 – 0.461 0.00
Category
External financing
Form
Discrete
Data
Accounting
Predicted sign
Negative
Original sample
1985–2012