Does the price multiplier effect also hold for stocks?

Details Does the price multiplier effect also hold for stocks? Does the price multiplier effect also hold for stocks?

2003-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311306v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

11 pages, 5 figures, 1 table To appear in the "International Journal of Modern Physics C"

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0129183103005510

The price multiplier effect provides precious insight into the behavior of investors during episodes of speculative trading. It tells us that the higher the price of an asset is (within a set of similar assets) the more its price is likely to increase during the upgoing phase of a speculative price peak. In short, instead of being risk averse, as is often assumed, investors rather seem to be ``risk prone''. While this effect is known to hold for several sorts of assets, it has not yet been possible to test it for stocks because the price of one share has no intrinsic significance which means that one cannot say that a stock $ A $ is more expensive than a stock $ B $ on the basis of its price. In this paper we show that the price-dividend ratio gives a good basis for assessing the price of stocks in an intrinsic way. When this alternative measure is used instead, it turns out that the price multiplier effect also holds for stocks, at least if one concentrates on samples of companies which are sufficiently homogeneous.

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