ChEQ · Investment · Lockwood and Prombutr (2010)

Growth in book equity

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1962Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
4.81%
95% interval 0.64% to 8.83%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
4.83%
95% interval 0.58% to 8.84%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
4.90%
95% interval 0.33% to 8.92%

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

+3,253% since 1962Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1962Q3–2024Q4 6.63% 14.16% 0.47 3.70
2020Q1–2024Q4 1.87% 18.56% 0.10 0.23
2024Q1–2024Q4 −14.65% 24.03% −0.61 −0.61

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.34 0.05 – 0.62 0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.34 0.04 – 0.62 0.01
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.32 0.02 – 0.62 0.02
Category
Investment
Form
Continuous
Data
Accounting
Sorted on
Low minus high
Names per leg
360 long / 406 short median · 115 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1964–2007