A Valuation-Based Contrarian Strategy for Fuling Zhacai

Summary

This Chinese brokerage research summary examines Fuling Zhacai, a single Chinese listed company, and proposes adjusting exposure according to how much future earnings its share price appears to anticipate. The analysis describes relatively stable analyst forecasts and argues that a valuation near 30 times earnings acted as a perceived support level after 2014. It also links an earlier valuation re-rating to expansion of the company’s distribution channels, even as profit growth was slowing.

The summary reports that a strategy based on an earnings-overpricing index reduced maximum drawdown compared with buy-and-hold over the period ending in August 2018; it also gives a Sharpe ratio for the strategy. However, the strategy’s annualized return is missing from the supplied text, and the underlying research appears only as a linked PDF that is not included. The evidence is therefore limited to a short abstract about one stock and should not be treated as proof of broader effectiveness.

Key ideas

• The proposed position sizing responds contrarily to an index of earnings expectations embedded in the share price.
• The analysis treats a 30-times-earnings valuation as a perceived support level for this company after 2014.
• The summary attributes an earlier valuation re-rating partly to distribution-channel expansion.
• Reported results describe lower maximum drawdown than buy-and-hold, but the annualized strategy return is absent from the text.

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