Fundamental and macroeconomic information for the security prices valuation: the French case
Abstract
Summarizes previous research on the links between share prices, accounting earnings and fundamentals (i.e. financial variables); identifies value‐relevant fundamentals used by analysts and assesses their usefulness by using principal components analysis on 1992‐1996 data for 50 French industrial firms. Finds three important factors (profitability ratios, returns/leverage and working capital/financial balance) which can be used in conjunction with two macroeconomic variables (inflation and change in real gross national product) to explain return variability.
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Citation
Martinez, I. (1999), "Fundamental and macroeconomic information for the security prices valuation: the French case", Managerial Finance, Vol. 25 No. 12, pp. 17-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/03074359910766316
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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