Stock Returns and Fundamentals in the Australian Market
Abstract
This study compares 10 widely used financial performance measures of stock return in the Australian stock market. The five financial measures are calculated on information provided in publicly available financial reports (accounting based financial measures) and the other five are calculated using market information as one of the key variable (market based financial performance). The sample includes companies from all major industries from 2001 to 2010. The panel data analysis shows that market based financial performance measures can better explain stock price variance compare to accounting based measures of financial performance. It has significance for researchers and practitioners seeking to select measures that can empirically explain the performance of company. It has also importance for shareholders tracking performance of companies in order to make profitable investments.Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher. The Editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication.
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