Portfolio managers versus the darts: Evidence from the Wall Street Journal's Dartboard Column

Allen B. Atkins; James A. Sundali

doi:10.1080/758533290

Portfolio managers versus the darts: Evidence from the Wall Street Journal's Dartboard Column

Allen B. Atkins, James A. Sundali

Business, The W.A. Franke College of (CoB)

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The possibility that professional stock analysts could be outperformed by throwing darts at the stock listing page has intrigued stock market enthusiasts for years. In this study, we examine the results from the Wall Street Journal's Investment Dartboard Columns and find that the experts outperform the darts by a wide margin and outperform five different market indices by a positive but statistically insignificant amount.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	635-637
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
Volume	4
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/758533290
State	Published - Oct 1997

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