LSV also showed that in periods of stress — recessions, bear markets, etc. — when risky investments
tend to be punished and safe investments
tend to be hoarded, value
stocks consistently beat
glamour.
As we discussed yesterday in Testing the performance of price - to - book value, various studies, including Roger Ibbotson's Decile Portfolios of the New York
Stock Exchange, 1967 — 1984 (1986), Werner F.M. DeBondt and Richard H. Thaler's Further Evidence on Investor Overreaction and
Stock Market Seasonality (1987), Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation and Risk (1994) and The Brandes Institute's Value vs
Glamour: A Global Phenomenon (2008) all conclude that lower price - to - book value
stocks tend to outperform higher price - to - book value
stocks, and at lower risk.
Lakonishok, Shleifer, and Vishny found that value
stocks tended to outperform
glamour stocks by wide margins, but their earlier research did not include the
glamour - driven markets of the late 1990s and early 2000s.