Download or read book The Effect of Stock Splits on Liquidity and Excess Returns written by Patrick J. Dennis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the influence of firm ownership composition on both the abnormal returns at the announcement of a stock split and liquidity changes following a stock split. We find three results. First, the largest post-split increase in institutional ownership occurs for firms that had low institutional ownership before the split. Second, changes in liquidity are negatively related to the level of institutional ownership before the split. Last, the abnormal return following a split is negatively related to the level of institutional ownership before the split. These findings are important as they shed new light on the source of stock split announcement returns.
Download or read book The Effect of Stock Splits on Excess Returns written by Ali Osman Gurbuz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Istanbul Stock Exchange is a young emerging stock exchange, the Turkish companies lack of equity capital. In a high inflationary world without having an inflation accounting system paying cash dividend can be disastrous for firms with low equity capital base. Therefore it is hardly difficult to observe cash dividend payments. The basic result of this widely used application is low dividend yields in emerging markets. As an emerging market investors seem to be attracted by capital gains and especially by gratis shares which can be seen as stock splits. Although stock splits seem to be a cosmetic transaction there are empirical evidence for United States that splits have effect on liquidity and returns. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the effects of stock splits on (liquidity and) excess returns and compare the results with the developed stock exchange cases. (Also the attention will be paid to price elasticity of demand during and after stock splits.)* Concepts which are not considered in the paper, but were seen in the first draft of the above abstract are indicated in parentheses.
Download or read book The Effect of Stock Splits on Liquidity written by Patrick Dennis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Further Evidence on the Impact of Stock Splits on Trading Liquidity written by Józef Rudnicki and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stock splits have attracted the attention of academicians and practitioners for a long time. Many debates revolve around these often called "cosmetic” events that do not bring about any direct valuation implications. In spite of their simplicity and theoretically no motivation for any potential reaction this corporate event exerts influence on various stock's characteristics like liquidity, rates of return, shareholders' base etc. Considering the time period 2000-May 2011 the author examines the behavior of share volume following the stock splits of companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and reports a 1-percent significant deterioration of this proxy of liquidity. Additionally, the greatest amplitude of abnormal changes in liquidity is observed during two trading sessions around the actual stock split although there is provided no new information to the market through the physical split of the shares outstanding since it is well-known in advance. The results obtained are indicative of the fact that splitting the stock as opposed to liquidity and/or trading range hypotheses on splits leads to liquidity deterioration what, in turn, should result in greater liquidity risk faced inter alia by brokers and/or market makers who may be willing to compensate for this unfavorable corollary of the corporate event at issue and, as a result, to charge higher transaction costs in the form of e.g. greater bid-ask spreads. On the other hand, shareholders, both existing and prospective, are likely to demand higher compensation for increased risk by requiring greater returns on such stocks.
Download or read book The Effect of Stock Splits on Liquidity written by Patrick Dennis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Stock Split Event Study Using Sector Indices Vs Cdax and Some Extensions of the Standard Market Model written by David Bosch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Bank und Börsenwesen), course: Seminar of Banking and Financial Markets, language: English, abstract: There are many theories in literature which try to examine possible reasons for a stock split. While a stock split seems to be just a cosmetic corporate event, it is often claimed that the motivation to carry out a stock split is to signal future profitability or to bring the share price to a preferred trading-range. Additionally there are many papers published, where the impact of a stock split on liquidity and institutional ownership is examined. Some results of these studies are briefly discussed in the Literature Review. Most researchers calculate their abnormal returns with the market model by using the most common index in their economy. In this paper, I check whether sector-indices fit the data better than the CDAX does. In some cases, the sector-indices describe the stock returns better. Another topic of event studies that researchers of the finance area often deal with is whether the assumptions of the market model established by Fama, Fisher, Jensen and Roll (1969) do hold for daily stock returns. I will discuss some of the weaknesses when applied to financial time series and I present two models which can improve the efficiency of the model.
Download or read book Stock Splits Liquidity and Limit Orders written by Marc Lipson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Valuation Effects of Stock Splits and Stock Dividends written by Mark Grinblatt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents evidence which indicates that stock prices, on average, react positively to stock dividend and stock split announcements that are uncontaminated by other contemporaneous firm-specific announcements. In addition, it documents significantly positive excess returns on and around the ex-dates of stock dividends and splits. Both announcement and ex-date returns were found to be larger for stock dividends than for stock splits. While the announcement returns cannot be explained by forecasts of imminent increases in cash dividends, the paper offers several signaling based explanations for them. These are consistent with a cross-sectional analysis of the announcement period returns.
Download or read book Stock Splits and Liquidity written by Patrick J. Dennis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an attempt to disentangle the signaling effect from the liquidity effect of stock splits, I examine the liquidity changes following the two-for-one split of the Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock. Since there can be no signaling with an index stock split, any difference between pre- and post-split trading may be driven by liquidity but not signaling effects. I find that though the post-split relative bid-ask spread is higher and daily turnover is unchanged, the frequency, share volume, and dollar-volume of small trades all increased after the split, indicating that the split improved liquidity for small trade-sizes.
Download or read book Stock Splits as a Value Creation Vehicle written by Józef Rudnicki and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stock splits have been for a long time a puzzling phenomenon that can bear particular consequences for stock's liquidity as well as for a stock price. I perform an analysis of stock splits accomplished between 2000 and May 2011 inclusive by companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. I seek to identify whether the stock splits under consideration constitute any signal to existing and potential shareholders and whether the stock split can add value to shareholders' wealth.I use three methods to analyze the impact of splits on subsequent price performance of 629 stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, i.e. mean adjusted return method, market model method and market adjusted return method. The data used contain daily rates of return and the event window encompasses the time period of [40;+40], i.e. the interval from the 40th stock exchange trading session preceding the stock split to the 40th session after the stock split, as well as the first session after the stock split. In the wake of the stock split the volatility of abnormal returns as measured with standard deviation declines under three methods employed by: 6.58%, 46.71%, and 48.24%, respectively. This fact is indicative of benefits derived from splitting the shares, e.g. stabilization of the share price and consequently a change in stock's risk-return profile. In turn, it can alter market participants' perception of a given stock. What is more, shareholders' gains as measured with cumulative abnormal rates of return, all 1-percent significant, reached within the event window outperform pre-split benefits, i.e. achieved as a result of a buy-and-hold strategy within the time frame of [-40;-1] as well as those attained in the post-split era, i.e. in the interval [+1:+40], using the same strategy. Investors who pursued the first strategy averaged with the cumulative abnormal rates of returns for three methods used at the level of: 41.76%, 15.28%, and 39.77%, respectively. Therefore the stock split can be viewed as a value creation vehicle.On the other hand, these findings show that managers that expect an improvement in financial health of their companies decide to split the shares thus conveying information what, in turn, is congruent with the signaling hypothesis. Moreover, in the aftermath of the stock split one may observe a substantial increase in the stock price what underlines the fact that stock splits are in general good news.
Download or read book The Market Reaction to Stock Splits Evidence from India written by Asim Mishra and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stock splits are a relatively new phenomenon in the Indian context. This paper examines the market effect of stock splits on stock price, return, volatility, and trading volume around the split ex-dates for a sample of stock splits undertaken in the Indian stock market over the period 1999-2005. The traditional view of stock splits as cosmetic transactions that simply divide the same pie into more slices is inconsistent with the significant wealth effect associated with the announcement of a stock split. However, the empirical evidence confirms a negative effect on price and return of stock splits. The overall cumulative abnormal returns after the split are negative. These results suggest that stock splits have induced the market to revise its optimistic valuation about future firm performance, rejecting signaling hypothesis to which splits convey positive information to markets. Hence, stock splits have reduced the wealth of the shareholders. The results also show that presence of a positive effect on volatility and trading volume following the split events, thus suggesting that split events enhance liquidity.
Download or read book Stock Splits written by Chris J. Muscarella and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stock splits are a common capital structure alteration which ought to have no effect on firm value in perfect capital markets. Empirical studies find that stock prices increase upon announcement of stock splits. The two traditional explanations for the rise in prices are information signaling on the part of managers and improved liquidity for shares that trade at lower prices. We investigate these explanations by studying splits of American Deposit Receipt (ADR) securities which are not associated with splits in the home country stock. We argue that these splits are likely to be motivated by the desire for liquidity improvements only. The results indicate that ADR prices rise by a statistically significant 1 to 2 percent at the announcement. We interpret this evidence as supportive of the liquidity explanation of stock split announcement effects.
Download or read book The Market Reaction to Stock Splits Evidence from Germany written by Christian Wulff and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the market reaction to stock splits, using a set of German firms. Similar to the findings in the U.S., I find significant positive abnormal returns around boththe announcement and the execution day of German stock splits. I also observe an increase in return variance and in liquidity after the ex-day. Apparently, legal restrictions strongly limit the ability of German companies to use a stock split for signaling. I find that abnormal returns around the announcement day are consistently much lower in Germany than in the U.S. Further, I find that abnormal returns around the announcement day are not related to changes in liquidity, but (negatively) to firm size, thus lending support to the neglected firm hypothesis. On the methodological side the effect of thin trading on event study results is examined. Using trade-to-trade returns increases the significance of abnormal returns, but the difference between alternative return measurement methods is relatively small in short event periods. Thus, the observed market reaction cannot be attributed to measurement problemscaused by thin trading.
Download or read book Utility Stock Splits written by Maria Mercedes Miranda and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the rich literature on theories of stock splits, studies have omitted public utility firms from their analysis and only analyzed split by industrial firms when examining managerial motives for splitting their stock. I examine the liquidity-marketability hypothesis, which states that stock splits enhance the attractiveness of shares to individual investors and increase trading volume by adjusting prices to an optimum trading range. Changes in the regulatory process, resulting from EPACT, have opened a window of opportunity for the study and comparison of the two traditional motives for splitting stock --signaling versus liquidity-marketability motives. Public electric utility firms provide a clean testing ground for these two non-mutually exclusive theories as liquidity/marketability hypothesis should dominate before the enactment of the EPACT since the conventional signaling theory of common stock splits should not apply given the low levels of information asymmetry in regulated utility companies. In the post-EPACT period, however, the signaling effect is expected to play a more dominant role. Based on both univariate and multivariate analyses, my results are consistent with the hypothesis posed. For the pre-EPACT period, liquidity motive seems to predominate in explaining the abnormal announcement return of utility stock splits. On the other hand, the results support the signaling motive as a leading explanation of abnormal returns in the post-EPACT period.
Download or read book The Effect of Stock Split ups and Stock Dividends on Market Price written by Roger Lee Miller and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transaction Size Order Submission and Price Preferences Around Stock Splits written by José Yagüe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We analyse the effect of splits on stock liquidity. The results show a drop in trading volume and depth and an increase in the relative bid-ask spread. We detect a change in trading composition, with an increase in the smallest transactions, mainly on the buyer side of shares whose prices fall significantly after the split. The information asymmetry does not diminish, given that the adverse selection component of the effective spread reduces only insignificantly for the full sample. Finally there are not significant changes in the percentage of orders that provide liquidity to the market. These findings indicate that splits, despite higher transaction costs, encourage the entry of small investors attracted by the lower stock prices.
Download or read book The Information Content of Multiple Stock Splits written by Gow-Cheng Huang and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the relationship between the frequency of stock splits and firms' motives for splitting their stock. Compared to their peers, infrequent splitters show higher post-split operating performance, but not so for frequent splitters. We find that split ratio and liquidity change explain the stock split announcement effect for the frequent splitters. In contrast, the change in operating performance in split year explains the announcement effect for the infrequent splitters. Our results suggest that frequent splits are more consistent with the trading range/improved liquidity hypothesis and infrequent splits are more consistent with the signaling hypothesis.
