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Penetrating the Book‐to‐Market Black Box: The R&D Effect

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  • Baruch Lev
  • Theodore Sougiannis

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The book‐to‐market (BM) phenomenon – the positive association between BM and subsequent returns – looms large among capital market enigmas. Economic theory postulates that the difference between market and book values of companies reflects their future abnormal profits. We capture these abnormal profits for a large sample of science‐based companies by estimating the value of the off‐balance sheet investment generating those profits – the value of R&D capital – and show empirically: (i) Firms’ R&D capital is associated with their subsequent stock returns. (ii) For R&D intensive firms, this ‘R&D effect’ subsumes the ‘book‐to‐market effect.’ (iii) The association between R&D and subsequent returns appears to result from an extra‐market risk factor inherent in R&D, rather than from stock mispricing. We thus provide an explanation for the book‐to‐market phenomenon of R&D companies.

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  • Baruch Lev & Theodore Sougiannis, 1999. "Penetrating the Book‐to‐Market Black Box: The R&D Effect," Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(3‐4), pages 419-449, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jbfnac:v:26:y:1999:i:3-4:p:419-449
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-5957.00262
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