Advances in Equity Valuation: Research on Accounting Valuation

Accrual Accounting, Informational Sufficiency, and Equity Valuation

This paper studies accrual accounting and equity valuation in the context of a firm that makes repeated and overlapping investments in productive capacity. The analysis identifies a particular accrual accounting (depreciation) rule which is termed replacement cost accounting because the book value of existing capacity assets is set equal to the value that such assets would have if a competitive...

Equity Valuation Using Multiples

We examine the valuation performance of a comprehensive list of value drivers and find that multiples derived from forward earnings explain stock prices remarkably well: pricing errors are within 15 percent of stock prices for about half our sample. In terms of relative performance, the following general rankings are observed consistently each year: forward earnings measures are followed by his...

Corporate Failure and Equity Valuation

This paper incorporates an annual probability of corporate failure into a standard equity valuation model, as an alternative or complementary correction for risk that improves in several ways over conventional risk premia or ad hoc adjustments to assumed growth rates. Though the correction is nonlinear, it can be reduced to an equivalent function that enters the valuation equation in the tradit...

Equity Valuation: Thirty Years Later

Equity Valuation: More than Thirty Years Later