Title
Does duration of competitive advantage drive long-term returns in the stock market?
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Resource Type
Journal
Author(s)
Forsyth J.A.
Abstract
The purpose of this article was to develop a new indicator to estimate the aggregate long-term expected return on stocks. There is not a widely used method to model directly the aggregated expected return of the stock market. Most current methods use indirect approaches. We developed a new indicator that does not need an econometric model to generate expected returns and provides an estimate of the long-term expected returns. The proposed methodology can be used to develop an indicator of future returns of the stock market similar to the yield-to-maturity used for bonds. We used a restricted one-stage constantgrowth model - a variant of the residual income model (RIM) - whose main input is the duration of companies' competitive advantage and cyclical adjusted real return on invested capital (ROIC) with a 10-year average. We used a new methodology to develop an indicator of the long-term expected return on the equity market at the aggregate level, considering the duration of the competitive advantage of companies. Our results showed a strong correlation between the estimated implied return on equity (IRE) of current stock prices and realized returns of the 10-year real total return of the index.
Start page
329
End page
342
Volume
33
Issue
89
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85131651871
Source
Revista Contabilidade e Financas
Resource of which it is part
Revista Contabilidade e Financas
ISSN of the container
15197077
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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