Stock Selection Based on Financial Ratios and Relative Growth Rate of Financial Ratios. Analysis between 2001 and 2010

The purpose of the article is to check if proposed method of assessing companies can point out one of the five quantile portfolios that systematically are giving better performance than a benchmark portfolio. Companies are chosen to portfolios due to their position in the ranking that is constructed on the base of the nominal values of chosen financial ratios and a relative growth rate of them. The author uses data of companies listed on the WSE between 2001 and 2010. The rankings and portfolios are built separately for each year. As a result, it can be stated that the second portfolio and the forth portfolio of the ranking are systematically giving higher rate of return than the benchmark portfolio. Among that two portfolios, the second portfolio of the ranking gives higher geometric average return. Moreover, the forth portfolio has lower average risk than the second portfolio of the ranking. However, the Sharpe ratio cannot unambiguously points out one of analysed portfolios is better than the other