ExclExp · Composite accounting · Doyle, Lundholm and Soliman (2003)

Excluded Expenses

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1984Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
0.38%
95% interval −2.33% to 3.18%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
0.42%
95% interval −2.31% to 3.20%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
0.60%
95% interval −2.27% to 3.32%

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

+94% since 1984Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1984Q3–2024Q4 1.90% 7.18% 0.26 1.68
2020Q1–2024Q4 −4.40% 6.20% −0.71 −1.59
2024Q1–2024Q4 −3.42% 8.05% −0.43 −0.43

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.05 −0.33 – 0.44 0.41
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.06 −0.30 – 0.44 0.40
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.08 −0.22 – 0.43 0.34
Category
Composite accounting
Form
Continuous
Data
Analyst
Sorted on
Low minus high
Names per leg
346.5 long / 346.5 short median · 263 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1988–1999