VolMkt · Volume · Haugen and Baker (1996)

Volume to market equity

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1926Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
4.27%
95% interval 0.47% to 7.93%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
4.29%
95% interval 0.42% to 7.99%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
4.33%
95% interval 0.18% to 8.14%

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

+3,748% since 1926Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1926Q3–2024Q4 5.18% 17.19% 0.30 2.99
2020Q1–2024Q4 0.06% 18.99% <0.01 0.01
2024Q1–2024Q4 4.89% 17.99% 0.27 0.27

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.25 0.03 – 0.46 0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.24 0.02 – 0.45 0.02
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.23 0.01 – 0.44 0.02
Category
Volume
Form
Continuous
Data
Trading
Sorted on
Low minus high
Names per leg
198 long / 197 short median · 54 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1979–1993