Research Article

Fama–French Three-Factor Versus Daniel-Titman Characteristics Model: A Comparative Study of Asset Pricing Models from India

Table 6

Mean monthly excess returns and regression results for the characteristic-balanced portfolios sorted on size, B/M, and HML factor loadings.

Panel A: Mean excess monthly returns
MeanStd. Dev.t-statistic

SL (hhlh)−0.0060.049−1.795
BL (hhlh)−0.0030.047−1.016
SM (hhlh)0.0020.0540.631
BM (hh−lh)0.0020.0480.680
SH (hhlh)0.0040.0660.942
BH (hhlh)0.0090.0731.864
Avg. (hhlh)0.0010.0300.707

Panel B: Fama–French regression results
αβshAdj. R2

SL (hl)0.0075 (−2.3784)0.0112 (0.1742)−0.0137 (−0.0971)0.2011 (3.0129)0.0402
BL (hl)−0.0039 (−1.1884)0.0458 (0.5805)−0.1160 (−0.9779)0.2265 (3.6028)0.0729
SM (hl)−0.0030 (−0.7632)0.1055 (1.6393)0.2339 (2.1521)0.1575 (2.4250)0.0754
BM (hl)−0.0021 (−0.7256)0.1346 (1.6738)0.0902 (1.0499)0.2507 (3.5982)0.1488
SH (hl)0.0013 (0.3434)0.1091 (2.8170)0.0478 (0.2360)0.1675 (1.5278)0.0309
BH (hl)0.0089 (1.6530)−0.0261 (−0.2688)−0.4949 (−1.5028)0.7140 (2.4471)0.2947
Avg (hl)−0.0010 (−0.6910)0.0633 (1.4559)−0.0421 (−0.6354)0.2862 (6.7566)0.3173

Numbers in bold denote significance at the 5 percent level or better.