本文旨在探討我國上市公司除了盈餘外,資本支出是否具有增額資訊內涵。研究內容分為兩個部份,第一部份在使用狀態空間樣型探討資本支出是否有助於預測未來盈餘;第二部份根據本文推導之模式探討資本支出資訊與股標報酬之關聯。〔分為年度研究與長期研究(兩年及三年)兩個部份〕。研究結果發現: This study aims to examine the incremental information content of capital expenditures of Taiwan listed companies. Taiwan listed companies generally have intensive capital expenditure rather then research and development costs in order to sustain the growth of their performance. Thus, this study suspects that the level of capital expenditures could help predict future earnings upon which capital expenditure could incrementally explain the earnings/return relationship. Empirically, this study first investigates the relationship between current capital expenditure and future earnings. Second, in order to select the optimal earnings/return windows, this study simulates the returns window for large and small firms over various long windows. Third, this study extends Collins and Kothari (1989) and Feltham and Ohlson (1995) to investigate whether the capital expenditure would contain an incremental information content in terms of earnings/return relationship. The findings of this study can be summarized as follows.