Equity Analysts in India Top Global Peers in Long-Short Model
A long-short strategy model that involves buying the top quintile of stocks most favored by analysts in an index of the largest 200 Indian firms, while simultaneously shorting the bottom quintile would have returned 105% over the past decade, data analyzed by Bloomberg News shows. The same market-neutral trade on the S&P 500 Index would have yielded just 14% in this period.
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