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Beschreibung:
We contribute with two principal findings that suggest a material role for 52-week-high price anchors in understanding the short-run behavior of one-month stock returns. First, we find that short-term momentum in high-turnover stocks is only evident for stocks whose prices are relatively close to their 52-week high. Conversely, strong reversals are evident for high-turnover stocks whose prices are relatively far from their 52-week high. Second, we find that the apparent price-to-52-week-high (PTH) anchoring biases are asymmetric with a concentration in past winners. High-PTH winners strongly outperform low-PTH winners, across all the different turnover and size segmentations that we examine. Conversely, a comparable PTH-based performance variation in past losers is not evident. This asymmetry is behind our first principal finding. We conduct three supplemental investigations that support a PTH anchoring-bias interpretation for the winner-PTH relation; also evaluating market sentiment, dispersion in analyst forecasted earnings, and firm size