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Six academically-validated factors, weighted by strength of evidence. Each factor captures a different dimension of stock quality and return potential.
Companies with strong fundamentals and consistent profitability tend to outperform.
Stocks that have been going up tend to continue going up.
Cheap stocks — measured by fundamentals — tend to outperform expensive ones.
Less volatile stocks deliver surprisingly competitive returns with less risk.
Companies that invest conservatively tend to outperform aggressive spenders.
Stocks with low short interest tend to outperform heavily shorted names.
Weights are derived from academic evidence for each factor's risk-adjusted return premium.
Factor investing is a systematic investment approach that targets specific, academically-validated characteristics (factors) that explain differences in stock returns. Rather than picking individual stocks, factor investing tilts portfolios toward stocks exhibiting positive factor traits — like high quality, strong momentum, or attractive valuations.
Our model uses 6 factors: Quality/Profitability (30% weight), Momentum (25%), Value (15%), Low Volatility/Stability (10%), Investment/Capital Efficiency (10%), and Short Interest (10%). Each factor is backed by decades of peer-reviewed academic research.
Individual factors go through cycles of outperformance and underperformance. Combining multiple factors creates diversification — when value struggles, momentum may thrive, and quality tends to be consistent. A multi-factor approach delivers smoother, more reliable returns over time.
No. Factor premiums are statistical tendencies observed over decades, not guarantees. Each factor can underperform for extended periods. However, the multi-factor approach mitigates this by diversifying across factors with low correlation to each other.