Analyst Consensus Valuation Factors Across Chinese Equity Sectors
Summary
This study evaluates analyst-consensus valuation and earnings factors for stock selection across the Chinese equity market and its industries. It compares factor information coverage and effectiveness, using information coefficients to assess the relationship between factor values and subsequent stock returns. A stepwise selection process narrows a set of common and consensus factors to a smaller group, including consensus price-to-book growth and consensus price-to-earnings measures, both reported to have negative relationships with returns.
Coverage varies by factor and industry: earnings forecast measures have broad coverage, while target-price measures reach fewer stocks. Consensus price-to-book, price-to-earnings, price-to-earnings-growth, and their growth rates show effectiveness across many industries. Results also differ by industry size and composition. The reported standout cases include consensus PE in banking and consensus PE growth and PEG in non-bank financials. The document provides no detailed methodology, sample period, transaction costs, or out-of-sample validation in the supplied text; target-return factors also have low coverage, which limits interpretation.
Key ideas
- Consensus valuation and earnings factors show significant single-factor relationships with stock returns in the broad market.
- Consensus price-to-book growth and consensus price-to-earnings are selected by a stepwise process and are negatively associated with returns.
- Earnings forecast factors have broader coverage than factors based on consensus target prices.
- Consensus PB, PE, PEG, and related growth factors are reported to work across most industries.
- Factor coverage and the number of effective factors vary with industry and stock counts.
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