Skewness and Mispricing in Emerging Markets: Long-Short Portfolio Evidence from Vietnam

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1 FPT University

2 Business and Management Research Group, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh city Faculty of Commerce and Tourism, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh city

10.22059/ijms.2026.391528.677449

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This study examines the effectiveness of traditional asset pricing models—namely the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Fama-French Three-Factor (FF3), and Five-Factor (FF5) models—in capturing skewness anomalies in the Vietnamese stock market from 2010 to 2023. Using long-short portfolios sorted by return skewness and employing the Gibbons-Ross-Shanken (GRS) test, we find that stocks with negative skewness yield significantly higher returns, while positively skewed stocks tend to be overpriced. The long-short strategy delivers an average monthly return of 1.25% with statistically significant alphas across all models. GRS test results (p < 0.01) further confirm that conventional models fail to explain these anomalies. These findings highlight a persistent pricing inefficiency in an emerging market context and underscore the importance of incorporating skewness into asset pricing frameworks and investment strategies.

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Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 23 May 2026

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