Our empirical evidence suggests that a portfolio of stocks with higher composite
scores (both VSCORE and GSCORE) earn higher one-year and two-year ahead marketadjusted
returns and that a zero-investment portfolio of longing high VSCORE (GSCORE)
stocks and shorting low VSCORE (GSCORE) earn significant positive future marketadjusted
returns for all sample firms, high BM firms and low BM firms. Our results with
respected to VSCORE for high BM firms are consistent with Piotroski (2000) and our results
with respected to GSCORE for low BK firms are consistent with Mohanram (2005).