In search of information content
portfolio performance of The 100 Best Stocks to Own in America
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https://doi.org/10.61190/fsr.v14i2.4819Keywords:
100 stocks, Portfolio, Information contentAbstract
Now in its seventh edition, The 1OO Best Stocks to Own in America is an enduring and lucid reference for the active individual investor. Through the sixth edition, it had reportedly sold over 300,000 copies, indicating that it might contain information content, or stocks that can beat a broad market index on a risk-adjusted basis. Does it? As a response, we compare the out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of 30 portfolios constructed from the first six editions of Walden's rankings to the Sharpe ratios of the S&P 500. We find some evidence of information content and suggest that the individual investor focus on the top five stocks.
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