Investment · Investment · Titman, Wei and Xie (2004)

Investment to revenue

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1953Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
3.55%
95% interval 1.01% to 6.11%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
3.55%
95% interval 1.00% to 6.11%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
3.54%
95% interval 0.95% to 6.11%

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

+864% since 1953Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1953Q3–2024Q4 3.83% 11.50% 0.33 2.82
2020Q1–2024Q4 5.49% 23.26% 0.24 0.53
2024Q1–2024Q4 18.41% 9.83% 1.87 1.87

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.31 0.09 – 0.53 <0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.31 0.09 – 0.53 <0.01
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.30 0.08 – 0.53 <0.01
Category
Investment
Form
Continuous
Data
Accounting
Sorted on
Low minus high
Names per leg
281.5 long / 296.5 short median · 38 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1973–1996