EquityDuration · Valuation · Dechow, Sloan and Soliman (2004)

Equity Duration

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1963Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
11.02%
95% interval 6.86% to 15.10%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
10.96%
95% interval 6.76% to 15.10%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
10.73%
95% interval 6.18% to 15.13%

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

+70,504% since 1963Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1963Q3–2024Q4 12.19% 16.98% 0.72 5.63
2020Q1–2024Q4 13.79% 19.47% 0.71 1.58
2024Q1–2024Q4 20.67% 25.50% 0.81 0.81

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.65 0.40 – 0.89 <0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.63 0.38 – 0.87 <0.01
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.57 0.28 – 0.85 <0.01
Category
Valuation
Form
Continuous
Data
Accounting
Sorted on
Low minus high
Names per leg
406 long / 384 short median · 137.7 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1962–1998