DelDRC · Investment alt · Prakash and Sinha (2013)

Deferred Revenue

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 2001Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
0.51%
95% interval −6.77% to 8.10%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
0.42%
95% interval −6.82% to 7.96%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
0.09%
95% interval −7.03% to 7.52%

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

−53% since 2001Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
2001Q3–2024Q4 −1.27% 18.40% −0.07 −0.34
2020Q1–2024Q4 −0.10% 19.29% −<0.01 −0.01
2024Q1–2024Q4 24.64% 24.27% 1.02 1.02

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.03 −0.37 – 0.45 0.45
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.02 −0.37 – 0.40 0.46
2026Q4–2031Q3 −0.01 −0.37 – 0.32 0.50
Category
Investment alt
Form
Continuous
Data
Accounting
Sorted on
High minus low
Names per leg
143 long / 138 short median · 120.1 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
2002–2007