Long-Term Shareholder Returns: Evidence from 64,000 Global Stocks

Hendrik Bessembinder; Te Feng Chen; Goeun Choi; K. C.John Wei

doi:10.1080/0015198X.2023.2188870

Long-Term Shareholder Returns: Evidence from 64,000 Global Stocks

Hendrik Bessembinder, Te Feng Chen, Goeun Choi, K. C.John Wei

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We study long-run shareholder outcomes for more than 64,000 global common stocks during the January 1990 to December 2020 period. The majority, 55.2% of U.S. stocks and 57.4% of non-U.S. stocks, underperform one-month U.S. Treasury bills in terms of compound returns over the full sample. Focusing on aggregate shareholder outcomes, we find that the top-performing 2.4% of firms account for all of the $US 75.7 trillion in net global stock market wealth creation from 1990 to December 2020. Outside the United States, 1.41% of firms account for the $US 30.7 trillion in net wealth creation.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	33-63
Number of pages	31
Journal	Financial Analysts Journal
Volume	79
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0015198X.2023.2188870
State	Published - 2023

Keywords

compound returns
long-term returns
return skewness
stock investing and shareholder wealth

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Accounting
Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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