Index funds have attracted investors over the years by promising to lower fees, turnover, taxes, and other expenses while outperforming the average actively-managed fund. Portfolio indexation has historically focused on three main methods of portfolio weighting: price-weighting, market capitalization-weighting, and occasionally equal-weighting. More recently, attention has been focused on “fundamental weighting” using financial statement items like sales, total assets, EBIT, and dividends to weight stock portfolios. This research focuses on portfolios of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) stocks that areconstructed using 15 different metrics. Two of the methods of indexation are the traditional approaches of price and market capitalization and the other 13 methods of indexation are ratios based upon the DuPont equation, price relatives, and operating cash flows. After the decade studied, the portfolio with the highest terminal value for the $1000 originally invested was the $1198 of the Operating Cash Flow (OCF) / Current Liabilities indexed portfolio and the lowestterminal value was the $670 for the Price/Sales indexed portfolio. The OCF / Current Liabilities, OCF / Total Debt, and OCF / Net Income-based portfolios all show significantly better performance at the 2% to 5% level when compared to the market value-weighted portfolio. None of these ratios had an abnormal level of skewness or kurtosis, which would have minimized the implications of these findings. Across the financial statements, the cash flow statement appears to provide the most fertile ground for above average rates of return to the passive, long-term investor.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (/ˈdaʊ/), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity indices. It is price-weighted, unlike other common indices such as the Nasdaq Composite or S&P 500, which use market capitalization. The primary pitfall of this ap
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