RevenueSurprise · Sales growth · Jegadeesh and Livnat (2006)

Revenue Surprise

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
2.38%
95% interval 0.04% to 4.70%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
2.37%
95% interval <0.01% to 4.72%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
2.33%
95% interval −0.17% to 4.79%

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

+248% since 1963Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1963Q3–2024Q4 2.50% 9.78% 0.26 2.01
2020Q1–2024Q4 0.30% 14.73% 0.02 0.05
2024Q1–2024Q4 16.45% 18.96% 0.87 0.87

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.24 <0.01 – 0.48 0.02
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.24 <0.01 – 0.47 0.02
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.22 −0.01 – 0.46 0.03
Category
Sales growth
Form
Continuous
Data
Accounting
Sorted on
High minus low
Names per leg
297 long / 296 short median · 125 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1987–2003