Abstract

Two easily measured variables, size and book-to-market equity, combine to capture the cross-sectional variation in average stock returns associated with market 8, size, leverage, book-to-market equity, and earnings-price ratios. Moreover, when the tests allow for variation in p that is unrelated to size, the relation between market p and average return is flat, even when 8 is the only explanatory variable.

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