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New Evidence on the Relation between the Enterprise Multiple and Average Stock Returns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2011

Tim Loughran  and
Jay W. Wellman
Tim Loughran
Affiliation:
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, 245 Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame, IN 46556. loughran.9@nd.edu
Jay W. Wellman
Affiliation:
School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. jww46@cornell.edu
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Abstract

Practitioners increasingly use the enterprise multiple (EM) as a valuation measure. EM is (equity value + debt + preferred stock – cash) / (EBITDA). We document that EM is a strong determinant of stock returns. Following Fama and French (1993) and Chen, Novy-Marx, and Zhang (2010), we create an EM factor that generates a return premium of 5.28% per year. We interpret EM as a proxy for the discount rate. Firms with low EM values appear to have higher discount rates and higher subsequent stock returns than firms with high EM values.

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Research Articles
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 46 , Issue 6 , December 2011 , pp. 1629 - 1650
Copyright
Copyright © Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington 2011

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