grcapx3y · Investment growth · Anderson and Garcia-Feijoo (2006)

Change in capex (three years)

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1954Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
4.51%
95% interval 1.06% to 8.11%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
4.48%
95% interval 1.04% to 8.06%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
4.39%
95% interval 0.90% to 7.96%

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

+1,151% since 1954Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1954Q3–2024Q4 4.65% 15.00% 0.31 2.60
2020Q1–2024Q4 5.34% 31.27% 0.17 0.38
2024Q1–2024Q4 22.15% 8.61% 2.57 2.57

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.30 0.07 – 0.54 <0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.30 0.07 – 0.53 0.01
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.28 0.06 – 0.51 0.01
Category
Investment growth
Form
Continuous
Data
Accounting
Sorted on
Low minus high
Names per leg
301 long / 308 short median · 40 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1976–1999