The rationale was
regression to the mean rather than price to book; I originally felt that all those portfolio managers who dumped the stock at $ 30 because the company was under investigation, would find it attractive again at $ 60 when the investigation was resolved, the settlement made and operations returned to normal.
Not exact matches
«It bears repeating that most investors extrapolate past performance, expecting the continuation of trends
rather than the far - more - dependable
regression to the
mean.
This phenomenon leads
to nonsense when people attribute the
regression to the
mean to some particular scientific law,
rather than
to the natural behavior of any random quantity.