Beyond a bias toward local stocks, investors prefer companies in certain cities over others. This study uses the
geographic network of investor-followed stocks from stock watchlists to identify intercity investment preferences
in China. We measure the city-pair connectivity by its likelihood of sharing an investor in common whose stock
watchlist is highly concentrated in the firms of that city pair. We find that a higher connectivity-weighted
aggregate stock demand-to-supply ratio across connected cities is associated with higher stock valuations,
higher turnover, better liquidity, and lower cost of equity for firms in the focal city. The effects are robust to
controls for geographic proximity and the broad investor base, are stronger among small firms, extend to stock
return predictability, and imply excess intercity return comovement. Our results suggest that city connectivity
revealed on the stock watchlist helps identify network factors in asset pricing.
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