SP · Valuation · Barbee, Mukherji and Raines (1996)

Sales-to-price

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1951Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
8.94%
95% interval 3.12% to 15.21%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
8.87%
95% interval 3.05% to 15.09%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
8.57%
95% interval 2.77% to 14.70%

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

+9,423% since 1951Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1951Q3–2024Q4 8.73% 22.96% 0.38 3.26
2020Q1–2024Q4 29.52% 33.33% 0.89 1.98
2024Q1–2024Q4 −1.10% 17.88% −0.06 −0.06

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.39 0.14 – 0.67 <0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.38 0.13 – 0.63 <0.01
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.34 0.10 – 0.56 <0.01
Category
Valuation
Form
Continuous
Data
Accounting
Sorted on
High minus low
Names per leg
371 long / 380 short median · 41 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1979–1991