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The Use of Accounting Screens for Separating Winners From Losers Among the S&P 500 Stocks
Journal of Accounting and Finance
  • Victoria Greyfman, Bloomsburg University
  • Hayden Wimmer, Georgia Southern University
  • Roy Rada, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2016
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Abstract

This study uses accounting screens based on the Piotroski's (2000) F-score and the derived MagicP formulae and finds that it is an effective investment strategy, which results in risk-adjusted outperformance of stocks with high book-to-market (BM) ratios over a market weighted benchmark portfolio and its subset of growth stocks. Unlike other studies that utilized similar tests on smaller firms, we examine the performance of large value stocks within the S&P 500 between 2007 and 2014 and find evidence of the value premium. The results were robust to the time period; in fact, the highest-ranked value stocks suffered less severely during the period of market correction.

Citation Information
Victoria Greyfman, Hayden Wimmer and Roy Rada. "The Use of Accounting Screens for Separating Winners From Losers Among the S&P 500 Stocks" Journal of Accounting and Finance Vol. 16 Iss. 1 (2016) p. 45 - 60 ISSN: 2158-3625
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hayden-wimmer/15/