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Myth-Busting with Momentum: How to Pursue the Premium

Nearly 30 years after its formal discovery,1 the appeal of stock price momentum2 remains in the eye of the beholder.

Read the latest research paper, “Myth-Busting with Momentum: How to Pursue the Premium” by Dimensional Head of Investment Strategist and Vice President Wes Crill, PhD, HERE.

FOOTNOTES

  1. Narasimhan Jegadeesh and Sheridan Titman, “Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: Implications for Stock Market Efficiency,” Journal of Finance 48, no. 1 (1993).
  2. Stock price momentum generally refers to the tendency of stocks with relatively high prior returns to continue their relative outperformance.

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