Rate My Professor Michael Gorman

At Sacred Heart, Gorman delivers courses on financial management and international financial management to undergraduate and graduate students. His research interests lie in asset pricing, with a particular emphasis on anomalies such as momentum. His 2016 dissertation, "Essays on Measuring Asset Pricing Anomalies," explored whether momentum trading remains profitable in the US stock market and critiqued prior measurement methodologies for potential biases. Prominent publications feature "Does bitcoin still enhance an investment portfolio in a post Covid-19 world?" (Finance Research Letters, 2024, with W.K. Hughen), "Analyzing Performance Under ASC 842" (Strategic Finance, 2020, with B.M. Lyons and B.M. Tarasovich), which examines the impact of new leasing rules on key financial metrics, and "Dynamic Interactions Between Central European Currencies and the Euro" (Economic Systems, 2020, with L.T. Orlowski and M.H. Roessler). Recent works include explorations into debt treatment in WACC for airlines and equity impacts of railroad safety. Gorman earned the Fisher-Long-Whitcomb Award for teaching excellence at Rutgers University and was promoted to his current associate teaching professor rank in May 2025.