The Predictive Ability of Dividend and Earnings Yields for Long-Term Stocks Returns

This study uses empirical models to examine the predictive ability of dividend and earnings yields for long-term stock returns. Results show that dividend and earnings yields share a similar predictive power for future stock returns and growth. It finds that the predictive power of dividend yields i...

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Main Authors: WU, Chunchi, Wang, X.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2000
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/797
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:This study uses empirical models to examine the predictive ability of dividend and earnings yields for long-term stock returns. Results show that dividend and earnings yields share a similar predictive power for future stock returns and growth. It finds that the predictive power of dividend yields increases with the return horizon, but that yields forecast future returns and growth over a much longer horizon. Dividend and earnings yields exhibit high autocorrelation and strong contemporaneous relations.