Stock Market Efficiency and Fundamental Analysis: Implications and Insights

Using the Top-Down Approach for Firm Analysis

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The implications of stock market efficiency for fundamental analysis indicates that using the top-down approach to analyze a firm will yield:

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The evidence is that fundamental analysis does not lead to superior returns using the top-down approach if the analyst uses only past and current information.

The analyst's job has to be directed towards doing a superior job of estimating the variables that cause long-run trends in realized returns.