Behavioral theories suggest that investor misperceptions and market mispricing will be
correlated across firms. We use equity and debt financing to identify common misval-
uation across firms. A zero-investment portfolio (UMO, undervalued minus overvalued)
built from repurchase and issue firms captures comovement in returns beyond that in some
standard multifactor models, and substantially improves the Sharpe ratio of the tangency
portfolio. Loadings on UMO incrementally predict the cross-section of returns on both
portfolios and individual stocks, even among firms not recently involved in external fi-
nancing activities. Further evidence suggests that UMO loadings proxy for the common
component of a stock’s misvaluation.
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