High Growth in Operating Costs Bad for Stocks?
July 15, 2014 - Fundamental Valuation
Does growth in a firm’s operating costs signal trouble for its stock? In their June 2014 preliminary paper entitled “Cost Growth and Stock Returns”, Dashan Huang, Fuwei Jiang, Jun Tu and Guofu Zhou examine the relationship between growth in operating costs and future stock returns. They measure operating cost growth as the annual percentage change in costs of goods… Keep Reading