A pronounced body of literature reported a positive correlation between fundamental accounting information and future stock returns. Specially, Piotroski(2000) and Mohanram(2005) demonstrated that two composite scores (F-SCORE and G-SCORE) based on fu...
A pronounced body of literature reported a positive correlation between fundamental accounting information and future stock returns. Specially, Piotroski(2000) and Mohanram(2005) demonstrated that two composite scores (F-SCORE and G-SCORE) based on fundamental accounting information for value and glamour firms, respectively, predict future stock returns. Piotroski(2000) reported that his composite score is appropriate for value firms, while Mohanram(2005) argued that his composite score is suitable for growth firms. They examined their models in the US stock market for value and glamour stocks. However, whether the same model works well in other stock market remains an empirical question.
In comparison to well-developed capital markets, the emerging market may not be efficient in terms of reflecting value-relevant accounting information to stock prices. Thus, fundamental analysis strategy may be more successful in terms of separating winners from losers in those markets. In this context, this study applies the fundamental analysis to value and glamour stocks in Korean stock market, to find out whether the accounting information can be useful in determining mispriced stocks.
Empirical results suggest that fundamental analysis is useful in terms of separating winners from losers in each of value and glamour stocks. Specifically, the investments strategy that takes long positions in expected winners (high score value and glamour stocks) and short positions in expected losers (low score value and glamour stocks) generates a 12.4% abnormal returns.
The empirical results of this study contribute to the literatures of the usefulness of historical accounting information in predicting future stock returns. This study, consistent with Piotroski(2000) and Mohanram(2005), shows that the historical accounting information can play an important role in detecting mispriced stocks.