CF · Valuation · Lakonishok, Shleifer, Vishny (1994)

Cash flow to market

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1951Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
6.52%
95% interval 1.42% to 11.02%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
6.54%
95% interval 1.46% to 11.02%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
6.62%
95% interval 1.56% to 11.09%

Forecast made 16 Sep 2026, conditioning on this portfolio's OAP returns, which end 2024Q4. The 7 quarters between then and 2026Q4 are unobserved and are integrated out under the model.

Cumulative market-adjusted return

+7,273% since 1951Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1951Q3–2024Q4 7.75% 19.18% 0.40 3.46
2020Q1–2024Q4 4.46% 23.70% 0.19 0.42
2024Q1–2024Q4 −23.71% 20.28% −1.17 −1.17

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.34 0.07 – 0.57 0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.34 0.07 – 0.58 0.01
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.34 0.07 – 0.58 0.01
Category
Valuation
Form
Continuous
Data
Accounting
Sorted on
High minus low
Names per leg
182 long / 168 short median · 41 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1968–1990