NetPayoutYield · Valuation · Boudoukh et al. (2007)

Net Payout Yield

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
7.60%
95% interval 2.59% to 12.03%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
7.56%
95% interval 2.66% to 11.99%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
7.33%
95% interval 2.59% to 11.86%

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

+7,795% since 1953Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1953Q3–2024Q4 7.52% 16.67% 0.45 3.81
2020Q1–2024Q4 16.56% 27.87% 0.59 1.33
2024Q1–2024Q4 −27.12% 35.32% −0.77 −0.77

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.46 0.16 – 0.72 <0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.44 0.15 – 0.69 <0.01
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.38 0.12 – 0.62 <0.01
Category
Valuation
Form
Continuous
Data
Accounting
Sorted on
High minus low
Names per leg
242 long / 238 short median · 37 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1984–2003