DownRecomm · Earnings forecast · Barber et al. (2001)

Down forecast EPS

Long minus short portfolio using the original paper's sort and weighting, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1994Q1 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per quarter
Next quarter
0.68%
95% interval 0.48% to 0.89%
Next year
0.65%
95% interval 0.41% to 0.89%
Next five years
0.55%
95% interval 0.18% to 0.92%

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

+250% since 1994Q1 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1994Q1–2024Q4 4.12% 3.37% 1.22 6.80
2020Q1–2024Q4 1.58% 4.16% 0.38 0.85
2024Q1–2024Q4 6.88% 6.52% 1.06 1.06

Forecast Sharpe ratio, per quarter

Horizon Mean 95% interval P(neg)
Next quarter 0.418 0.291 – 0.544 0.00
Next year 0.394 0.248 – 0.544 0.00
Next five years 0.331 0.110 – 0.557 0.00
Category
Earnings forecast
Form
Discrete
Data
Analyst
Predicted sign
Negative
Original sample
1985–1997