Research on the Applicability of Value Investment in China’s A-Share Market

Abstract

Value investment has been widely respected and applied in the capital market of developed countries, and its effectiveness has also been verified in a large number of practices. However, since it was introduced to China in 1990s, the concept of value investment has been buried for a long time due to the lack of supervision and the backwardness of investment concepts. With the improvement of the market environment, the progress of supervision system and the update of investors’ ideas in recent years, does China’s A-share market have the conditions for value investment? This paper will discuss this problem theoretically and empirically. Firstly, this paper combs the development of value investment theory and expounds the views and propositions of value investment. Secondly, under the guidance of value investment theory, this paper selects the data of CASMR database 2018-2021. In the first stage, five sectors are selected as the low growth and high growth track of value investment by using multi-factor model. In the second stage, using EVA analysis, five leading stocks in each industry are selected for empirical test, combined with the fundamental analysis in each stage. The results show that the average annual rate of return of the top enterprises is over 50% and the average annual rate of return is over 30% in the high-growth industries screened out under the concept of value investment; This paper verifies that value investment is not only suitable for China A-share market, but also an excellent investment idea with low risk and high return, and puts forward some relevant investment suggestions.