Dashan Huang Strategy Explanation Video
Dashan Huang is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University. Huacheng Zhang is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Guofu Zhou is the Frederick Bierman and James E. Spears Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. Their paper "Twin Momentum" looked at combining traditional price momentum with improving fundamentals to generate market outperformance. In the paper, they identified seven fundamental variables (earnings, return on equity, return on assets, accrual operating profitability to equity, cash operating profitability to assets, gross profit to assets and net payout ratio) that they combined into a single fundamental momentum measure. They showed that stocks in the top 20% of the universe according to that measure outperformed the market going forward. When they combined that measure with price momentum, they were able to double its outperformance.
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This strategy looks for stocks with strong fundamental and price momentum. Fundamental momentum is determined using a combination of seven variables: earnings, return on equity, return on assets, accrual operating profitability to equity, cash operating profitability to assets, gross profit to assets and net payout ratio. Price momentum is determined using the most recent twelve month period excluding the latest month. When these two types of momentum were combined together, the authors found that the result was significant outperformance over the market.