Recomm_ShortInterest · Recommendation · Drake, Rees and Swanson (2011)

Analyst Recommendations and Short-Interest

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
2.31%
95% interval 1.06% to 3.54%
Next year
2.28%
95% interval 1.01% to 3.54%
Next five years
2.18%
95% interval 0.71% to 3.56%

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

+1,853% since 1994Q1 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1994Q1–2024Q4 10.96% 15.98% 0.69 3.82
2020Q1–2024Q4 10.20% 23.97% 0.43 0.95
2024Q1–2024Q4 19.13% 24.20% 0.79 0.79

Forecast Sharpe ratio, per quarter

Horizon Mean 95% interval P(neg)
Next quarter 0.290 0.133 – 0.445 0.00
Next year 0.285 0.126 – 0.445 0.00
Next five years 0.273 0.089 – 0.446 0.00
Category
Recommendation
Form
Discrete
Data
Analyst
Predicted sign
Positive
Original sample
1994–2006