Hong Kong Equity Factors: Momentum, Growth, and Profitability
Summary
This factor study examines stock selection in Hong Kong equities and contrasts the market with mainland China. It describes Hong Kong as having a more polarized company-size distribution and lower trading activity, then tests market-cap, momentum, growth, and profitability signals. The report finds that the size effect is weak and irregular: small-cap excess returns were concentrated in a few extreme periods and came with poor win rates and larger drawdowns. In market-cap-neutral tests, cross-sectional momentum appeared more consistently useful, with three-month momentum outperforming the one- and six-month versions among the reported horizons.
The report also identifies growth and profitability measures as potential selection signals, highlighting EPS, ROE, and ROA among the latter. It supplies historical portfolio returns, Sharpe ratios, and win rates for several factors, but some values in the supplied text are missing. The findings are backtest evidence from a particular sample, not proof of future performance; low liquidity and the market’s unusual size distribution may also affect implementation and generalizability.
Key ideas
- The report describes Hong Kong equities as less actively traded and more polarized by company size than mainland shares.
- Market-cap effects were weak and non-monotonic, with small-cap excess returns concentrated in a few episodes.
- Market-cap-neutral tests found cross-sectional momentum, especially at the three-month horizon.
- Growth and profitability signals, including EPS, ROE, and ROA, showed selection potential in the study.
- Historical backtest results have limits, and some figures are absent from the available text.
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