Drop one regressor and the other springs to life
With two valuation signals in the model, neither coefficient is significant and one even carries a counterintuitive sign. You drop one signal; the remaining one immediately becomes strongly significant with a sensible, larger coefficient.
What does this sensitivity to dropping a regressor reveal?
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