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Revenue Market Share Gainers in the US: A 25-Year Backtest
Revenue market-share gainers returned 3.3% annually vs the S&P 500's 7.8%. The signal worked in 2000-2009. Then it broke. Here's why.
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Revenue market-share gainers returned 3.3% annually vs the S&P 500's 7.8%. The signal worked in 2000-2009. Then it broke. Here's why.
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India is the only market where gaining sector-relative revenue share consistently outperforms. 11.8% CAGR, +4% excess over SPY, 60% win rate across 25 years.
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Canadian market-share gainers returned 6.7% annually with the shallowest drawdown of any exchange tested (-26.6%). The signal underperforms the benchmark but offers unusually good downside protection.
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UK market-share gainers returned 5.6% annually, beating SPY in 13 of 25 years. The strategy stays fully invested but underperforms by 2.2% annually — similar to Germany but with a meaningfully higher win rate.
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German market-share gainers returned 3.5% annually across 25 years, staying fully invested every period but underperforming by 4.3% annually. The signal finds stocks — it just doesn't find outperformers.
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Swiss market-share gainers have the highest Sharpe ratio of any exchange (0.337), lower volatility than the benchmark, and still return 1.4% annually less than the S&P 500. Low-volatility markets produce cleaner factor signals but smaller absolute gains.
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We backtested sector-relative revenue growth as a stock screen across 15 exchanges from 2000 to 2024. India outperformed by 4% annually. Every other market underperformed. Here's what explains the difference.