Value · earnings yield · top 50 of the Top 500 (after Basu 1977; Fama & French 1992) · long/short
Cheap stocks on trailing earnings over market value earn more than expensive ones, as investors over-extrapolate growth. Fundamentals are point-in-time: only figures filed on or before each rebalance are used. Falsified if it does not beat the equal-weight benchmark after 10 bps costs.
Forward tracking started 2026-10-13. Results appear after 21 trading days.
Backtest
| Metric | Strategy | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|
| CAGR | -3.49% | 7.63% |
| Volatility | 9.69% | 18.17% |
| Sharpe | -0.32 | 0.50 |
| Max drawdown | -50.89% | -36.87% |
| Turnover (per year) | 2.13 |
Deflated Sharpe: 0.00 (n trials: 386) — the probability the Sharpe ratio is real after the number of variants tried.
Fundamentals and survivorship: Fundamentals (earnings_yield) are point-in-time (filed on or before each date) and cover 63% of the eligible names on average. Names without SEC fundamentals, mostly companies that later delisted, are never selected; an equal-weight portfolio of only the covered names returned +2.52% a year versus all eligible names, which is the survivorship bias this backtest may carry.
Spec
{
"costs_bps": 10,
"end": "2025-12-31",
"rebalance": "M",
"side": "long_short",
"signal": {
"ascending": false,
"field": "earnings_yield",
"type": "factor"
},
"start": "2011-01-01",
"top_n": 50,
"universe": "top500"
}Fork this strategy
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