Cornerstone Value is a five criteria large-cap dividend yield-focused value screen outlined in James O'Shaughnessy’s seminal 1996 book What Works on Wall Street. His work showed that a large-caps stock portfolio with above average stock liquidity and cash flow per share which was ranked for high dividend yields performed best over the long term. Accordiing to his work, this value strategy outperformed the market producing an annual compound return of 15% from 1954 to 1996, compared to 8.3% for the S&P 500 Index (his Cornerstone Growth Strategy achieved 18% but with greater volatility). To learn more about this strategy please click here »
Founder and CEO of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM). Wrote the seminal 1996 book "What Works on Wall Street”.
What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time
by James P. O'Shaughnessy
James O'Shaughnessy’s seminal 1996 book describes the strategies he developed in the 1990s using Standard & Poor's Compustat database to back-test the performance of dozens of stock-picking strategies between 1954 and 1996.
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