A Concentrated Value Screen Based on Growth, Returns, Ownership, and Valuation
Summary
This article translates an investor’s concentrated value approach into a quantitative stock-selection framework. It seeks companies with reasonable valuations, durable operating performance, substantial insider ownership, and share prices below their recent highs. The proposed measures include three-year revenue, net-profit, and free-cash-flow growth; return on equity; director and supervisor ownership; price-to-book; price-to-earnings; and price relative to the prior year’s high.
The China-market adaptation selects stocks using growth and return-on-equity thresholds relative to the market, an ownership condition that the article says lacks data, and valuation caps. It then takes the first 30 eligible stocks, rebalances monthly, and specifies individual-stock and broad-market loss exits. The article reports a backtest from January 2016 through June 2017, with annualized return, benchmark return, maximum drawdown, win rate, and average holdings stated in the source. The short test period and missing ownership data limit interpretation; no evidence is supplied that these results generalize beyond that sample.
Key ideas
- The framework combines business growth and profitability with valuation and insider ownership measures.\nIt proposes three-year growth rates for revenue, net income, and free cash flow, alongside return on equity.\nThe China-market version uses market-relative thresholds and valuation limits, while acknowledging missing ownership data.\nThe portfolio is refreshed monthly and has both stock-level and market-wide exit rules.\nThe reported backtest covers a limited historical period, so its results do not establish broader effectiveness.
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