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Table 1 Portfolio selection criteria

From: Portfolio selection: a fuzzy-ANP approach

Criteria

Sample Reference

Factor Analysis/PCA

Price-to-book ratio (P/B)

Gold and Lebowitz (1999)

No

Thakur et al. (2018)

No

Hilliard and Zhang (2015)

No

Palazzo et al. (2018)

No

Mohapatra and Misra (2019)

No

Price-to-earnings ratio (P/E)

Zargham and Sayeh (1999)

No

Thakur et al. (2018)

No

Pattipeilohy and Koesrindartoto (2015)

No

Thakur et al. (2016)

No

Sharma and Mehra (2017)

No

Net profit margin

Huang (2012)

No

Silva et al. (2015)

No

Boonjing and Boongasame (2016)

No

Jeong and Kim (2019)

No

Ece and Uludag (2017)

No

Systematic risk

Treynor and Black (1973)

No

Li et al. (2019a, b)

No

Aliu et al. (2017)

No

Wang et al. (2018)

No

Guerard Jr et al. (2015)

No

Earnings per share

Hurson and Zopounidis (1997)

No

Messaoudi et al. (2017)

No

Guerard Jr et al. (2015)

No

Thakur et al. (2018)

No

Vezmelai et al. (2015)

No

Revenue growth rate

Lim et al. (2014)

No

Silva et al. (2015)

No

Najafi and Pourahmadi (2016)

No

Du et al. (2016)

No

Maier et al. (2016)

No

Net profit rate

Han et al. (2004)

No

Silva et al. (2015)

No

Vezmelai et al. (2015)

No

Guo et al. (2016)

No

Lee and Moon (2017)

No

Return on asset (ROA)

Rachev et al. (2005)

No

Mashayekhi and Omrani (2016)

No

Bruni et al. (2016)

No

Li et al. (2018)

No

Li et al. (2015a, b)

No

Market risk

Campbell et al. (2001)

No

Davies et al. (2016)

No

Wang et al. (2017)

No

Messaoudi et al. (2017)

No

Shen (2015)

No

Financial risk

Merton (1969)

No

Bianchi et al. (2019)

No

Gao et al. (2016)

No

Calvo et al. (2016)

No

Shi et al. (2018)

No

Earnings per share growth rate

Brown (2012)

No

Silva et al. (2015)

No

Dhrymes and Guerard (2017)

Yes

Jothimani et al. (2017)

Yes

Guerard Jr et al. (2015)

No

Management system

Archer and Ghasemzadeh (1999)

No

Abdollahi et al. (2015)

No

Costantino et al. (2015)

No

Kaiser et al. (2015)

No

Calvo et al. (2016)

No

Liquidity

Koo (1998)

No

Zhao and Xiao (2016)

No

Zhang et al. (2016)

No

Qi et al. (2017)

No

Caccioli et al. (2016)

No

Company assets

Lintner (1975)

No

Vezmelai et al. (2015)

No

Paiva et al. (2019)

No

Silva et al. (2015)

No

Bagheri et al. (2017)

No

Davies et al. (2016)

No

Stock turnover

Ledoit and Wolf (2003)

No

Yang et al. (2018)

No

Li (2015)

No

Mashayekhi and Omrani (2016)

No

Low et al. (2016)

No

Semivariance

Yan et al. (2007)

No

Seyedhosseini et al. (2016)

No

Barati et al. (2016)

No

Farahani and Amiri (2017)

No

Yan and Li (2009)

No

Interest coverage

Raei and Jahromi (2012)

No

Varma and Kumar (2012)

No

Donaldson et al. (2011)

No

Thompson (1976)

No

Kazemi et al. (2014)

No

Sustainable growth rate

Barracchini (2004)

No

Sullivan et al. (2006)

No

Lukasevicius and Lapinskaite (2014)

No

Cucchiella et al. (2017)

No

Chaudhry et al. (2014)

No

Negative standard deviation

Baumol (1963)

No

Best and Grauer (2016)

No

Brinkmann et al. (2015)

No

Gardner (2019)

No

Zhu (2019)

No

Return on equity (ROE)

Hurson and Zopounidis (1997)

No

Rakićević et al. (2019)

No

Škrinjarić and Šego (2019)

No

Witayakiattilerd (2019)

Yes

Gao (2019)

No

Positive standard deviation

Levy and Sarnat (1970)

No

Tamiz and Azmi (2019)

No

Gardner (2019)

No

Penev et al. (2019)

No

Lian and Chen (2019)

No

Asset turnover

Bouri et al. (2002)

No

Rakićević et al. (2019)

No

Gao (2019)

No

Chanvarasuth et al. (2019)

No

Jeong and Kim (2019)

No

Workforce

Archer and Ghasemzadeh (1999)

No

Tavana et al. (2019)

No

Li et al. (2019a, b)

No

Hashemizadeh and Ju (2019)

No

Doerner et al. (2004)

No