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BETA, SIZE, RISK, AND RETURN
Author(s) -
Downs Thomas W.,
Ingram Robert W.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of financial research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.319
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1475-6803
pISSN - 0270-2592
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6803.2000.tb00742.x
Subject(s) - beta (programming language) , stock (firearms) , risk–return spectrum , econometrics , expected return , economics , financial economics , business , actuarial science , monetary economics , demographic economics , geography , computer science , portfolio , archaeology , programming language
We relate the cross‐section of stock returns to firm size, beta, and total risk. We find that as extreme monthly security returns are censored from the data, the significance level decreases rapidly for the size variable and increases for beta and total risk. An analysis of up and down markets reaffirms our findings. Consequently, average returns relate positively with beta, negatively with total risk, and not at all with firm size. We infer that investors willingly accept a lower average return on high‐total‐risk investments as the trade‐off for buying a chance at an extreme positive return. JEL classification: G1.