Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society

Korean Data Analysis Society (한국자료분석학회)
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Stock Market Sentiment and Stock Returns

  • Kim, Taehyuk (Department of Business Administration, Pusan National University) ;
  • Ryu, Hoyoung (Department of Business Administration, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2018.11.20
  • Accepted : 2018.12.20
  • Published : 2018.12.31

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Abstract

The behavioral finance view on the existence of asset pricing anomalies is based on two factors: investors' sentiment and limits to arbitrage. This paper tries to examine the effect of investors' sentiment on the stock price in the Korean stock market. In order to measure investors' sentiment, we constructed the sentiment index using principal component of five sentiment variables. By using sentiment index as an additional independent variable to three risk factors, impacts of the sentiment index on individual stocks and 25 portfolios sorted by BM-size are examined. Main results found are as follows: 1) not only all three risk factors show positive impacts on the return of individual stock, but also the sentiment index has a positive impact. SI alone explains 15% of individual return variation. 2) among four independent variables, the most important factor turned out to be the market risk factor and investors' sentiment has better explanatory power on stock price than the size effect. 3) after controlling the market risk factor, the coefficient of the sentiment index for the smallest size and highest book/market value portfolios is significantly positive. 4) all the coefficients of the sentiment index for 25 portfolios sorted by BM-size have significant positive value after controlling size or (and) value.

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Supported by : Pusan National University

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