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Are the Best Small Companies the Best Investments?

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  • W. Scott Bauman
  • C. Mitchell Conover
  • Don R. Cox

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Previous research finds that large companies previously judged to be excellent growth companies have subsequently been poor investments. We examine small companies selected by Business Week on the basis of multiple criteria used in annual articles featuring highly rated growth companies. We study the investment performance over the three years before eleven annual Business Week publications and the three years after publication. We find positive excess returns in the pre‐publication period, but negative excess returns in the post‐publication period. This reversal in investment performance appears to be due to a mean‐reversion tendency in operating performance, in which the earnings and the past rates of return on capital of such companies subsequently decrease significantly.

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  • W. Scott Bauman & C. Mitchell Conover & Don R. Cox, 2002. "Are the Best Small Companies the Best Investments?," Journal of Financial Research, Southern Finance Association;Southwestern Finance Association, vol. 25(2), pages 169-186, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jfnres:v:25:y:2002:i:2:p:169-186
    DOI: 10.1111/1475-6803.t01-1-00002
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    1. Yu, Susana & Lord, Richard A. & Webb, Gwendolyn, 2010. "The hot-growth companies: How well do analysts predict their performance?," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 62(3), pages 195-219, May.
    2. King, Michael R. & Segal, Dan, 2008. "Market segmentation and equity valuation: Comparing Canada and the United States," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 18(3), pages 245-258, July.
    3. Gerald Lander, 2006. "Returns of Small Growth Stocks: An Empirical Analysis," International Advances in Economic Research, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 12(4), pages 475-490, November.
    4. Michael R. King & Dan Segal, 2003. "Valuation of Canadian- vs. U.S.-Listed Equity: Is There a Discount?," Staff Working Papers 03-6, Bank of Canada.
    5. Susana Yu & Sang-Hoon Kim, 2009. "Analysis of Business Week hot-growth stocks: Momentum and fundamental investment approaches," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(3), pages 192-204, August.
    6. Greg Filbeck & Xin Zhao & Ryan Knoll, 2017. "An analysis of working capital efficiency and shareholder return," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 265-288, January.
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