Introduction: The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) of Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965) was the most widely recognized explanation of stock prices and expected returns. It gives a prediction of risk of an asset or a portfolio and its expected return which thereby helps in evaluating potential returns of investments.Fama and French (1992) found that the cross section of average stock returns for the period 1963-1990 for US stocks is not fully explained by the CAPM beta and that stock risks are multidimensional. Two of these dimensions of risk, they suggest, are proxied by size and the ratio of book value of common equity to its market value (BE/ME). Fama and French (1993) came up with a model for explaining stock returns using three factors: market, book to market, and size. This model was supportive of Banz (1981) who claimed that ‘size effect’ was present for more than 40 years and that the CAPM was misspecified ....