Download or read book An Analysis of Repurchase Behavior in Open Market Stock Buyback Programs written by Tony Altobelli and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boards of directors authorize billions of dollars in open market (OM) stock buybacks each year, but little is known about how many shares are actually repurchased. This paper analyses the repurchase behavior of firms that announce OM buyback programs. We find that OM announcements are credible signals. On average, firms repurchase more shares than originally authorized over the four quarters following the announcement, though there is considerable variation across firms. We examine the factors influencing repurchase behavior, and find that repurchases in a given quarter are associated with a number of variables, including past and current returns, profitability, and prior repurchase activity. We also investigate how shares outstanding change following OM program announcements. Firms in our sample actively issue shares over the test period so that the average decrease in shares outstanding is only about 20% of the number repurchased. For the most part, changes in shares are influenced by the same factors affecting repurchases and in the predicted direction.

Download or read book Open Market Stock Repurchase and Stock Price Behavior When Management Values Real Investment written by Nobuyuki Isagawa and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides a simple explanation of open-market stock repurchases and the stock price behavior surrounding them. There is ex ante asymmetry of information with regard to the private benefits that corporate managers can attain from real investments. In our model, open-market repurchase announcements reveal information about the managers' private benefits when real investment opportunities are unprofitable in terms of firm values. This study differs from previous studies in that we show that announcements of open-market repurchase programs can be believable without the restriction that the announcements are commitments. Empirically, the model simultaneously predicts that a stock price will drop prior to an open-market repurchase announcement and will rise in response to the announcement. These predictions are consistent with stylized facts.

Download or read book Stock repurchase and abnormal returns in den USA and Germany written by Jan Heise and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: A+, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth (Charlton Business School), course: Masters Kurs: Finance for Decision Making, language: English, abstract: Two of the most prominent trends in corporate finance in the U.S. during the past 15 years are the growing popularity of share repurchases and the decreasing popularity of dividends. Repurchasing stocks is another way for managers to distribute money to shareholders, thus it plays an equivalent role as dividend payments. Consistent with Grullon and Michaely (2002) U.S. corporations distribute cash by rather repurchasing stock than by paying dividends to shareholders. Fama and French (2001) argue in the same direction. Their study provides evidence that the proportion of corporations paying cash dividends fell from 66.5% in 1978 to 20.8% in 1999. According to Grullon’s (2000) findings the total of share repurchases exceeded the total of dividend payment for industrial firms in 1998. In Germany share repurchases were highly restricted until 1998. As a consequence the volume of repurchases was small. The popularity of repurchases in the U.S. and in other countries was a strong argument for lifting the restrictions. These days, German companies announce buybacks regularly. Although capital markets in the USA and Germany are efficient the impact of stock repurchase programs differ, resulting in higher stock performance after buyback announcements in Germany than in the USA.

Download or read book Payout Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dividend policy continues to be among the premier unsolved puzzles in finance. A number of theories have been advanced to explain dividend policy. This e-book briefly reviews the principal theories of payout policy and dividend policy and summarizes the empirical evidence on these theories. Empirical evidence is equivocal and the search for new explanation for dividends continues.

Download or read book Corporate Payout Policy written by Harry DeAngelo and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Payout Policy synthesizes the academic research on payout policy and explains "how much, when, and how". That is (i) the overall value of payouts over the life of the enterprise, (ii) the time profile of a firm's payouts across periods, and (iii) the form of those payouts. The authors conclude that today's theory does a good job of explaining the general features of corporate payout policies, but some important gaps remain. So while our emphasis is to clarify "what we know" about payout policy, the authors also identify a number of interesting unresolved questions for future research. Corporate Payout Policy discusses potential influences on corporate payout policy including managerial use of payouts to signal future earnings to outside investors, individuals' behavioral biases that lead to sentiment-based demands for distributions, the desire of large block stockholders to maintain corporate control, and personal tax incentives to defer payouts. The authors highlight four important "carry-away" points: the literature's focus on whether repurchases will (or should) drive out dividends is misplaced because it implicitly assumes that a single payout vehicle is optimal; extant empirical evidence is strongly incompatible with the notion that the primary purpose of dividends is to signal managers' views of future earnings to outside investors; over-confidence on the part of managers is potentially a first-order determinant of payout policy because it induces them to over-retain resources to invest in dubious projects and so behavioral biases may, in fact, turn out to be more important than agency costs in explaining why investors pressure firms to accelerate payouts; the influence of controlling stockholders on payout policy --- particularly in non-U.S. firms, where controlling stockholders are common --- is a promising area for future research. Corporate Payout Policy is required reading for both researchers and practitioners interested in understanding this central topic in corporate finance and governance.

Download or read book Open Market Repurchase Announcements Actual Repurchases and Stock Price Behavior in Inefficient Markets written by Nobuyuki Isagawa and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I ask why a firm would choose to buy back its outstanding shares after the stock price goes up in response to an open-market repurchase announcement. I introduce the subject of market inefficiency and establish a signaling equilibrium that does not assume that an announcement of open-market repurchase represents a commitment. Since the firm can earn capital gains by buying its outstanding shares at a bargain price, it has a strong incentive to execute stock repurchases even after it announces repurchase intention. Empirically, my model predicts positive long-run stock return performance and positive announcement effects following open-market repurchase announcements.

Download or read book The Effect of Common Stock Repurchase on Securityholder Returns written by Larry York Dann and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Open Market Stock Repurchase and Stock Price Behavior written by Nobuyuki Isagawa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Share Repurchases written by Theo Vermaelen and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey derives some of the key results on the taxation of international investment in variants of one model of multinational investment.

Download or read book Market Underreaction to Open Market Share Repurchases written by David Ikenberry and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine long-run firm performance following open market share repurchase announcements which occurred during the period 1980 to 1990. We find that the average abnormal four-year buy-and-hold return measured after the initial announcement is 12.1 percent. For `value' stocks, companies more likely to be repurchasing shares because of undervaluation, the average abnormal return is 45.3 percent. For repurchases announced by `glamour' stocks where undervaluation is less likely to be an important motive, no positive drift in abnormal returns is observed. Thus, at least with respect to value stocks, the market errs in its initial response and appears to ignore much of the information conveyed through repurchase announcements.

Download or read book Share Buybacks written by David Wagener and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-02-08 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 2,3, Berlin School of Economics and Law, language: English, abstract: Beginning with the subprime credit crunch in the USA in late 2007, which subsequently affected financial products all over the world, the global markets entered a period of severe economic downturn. The gravity of this downturn can be seen in the fact that the euro zone entered a recession, i.e., the shrinking of the gross domestic product in two consecutive periods, in late 2008. In this context, recent finance literature (e.g., Rhodes and Stelter, 2009) advises companies to concentrate on cash management. The demand of the hour is to reduce or postpone outflows and guarantee inflows. That is, besides other measures, payouts to shareholders will be reduced. After years of two digit growth rates (Grullon and Michaely, 2002), share buybacks much sooner than dividends will therefore see substantial cutbacks. In Germany, payouts via buybacks have only gained significant importance since 1998 . However, in the short time since then, a great deal of listed companies have been making use of the buyback method. Especially some of the larger firms listed in the DAX 30 such as DaimlerChrysler (7.5 bil. €), Deutsche Bank (5 bil. €), Münchener Rück (5 bil. €) and Siemens (10 bil. €) have recently announced sub-stantial buyback volumes (Haslauer, 2008). In this respect Sommer (2007) finds that in the approximately 10 years from the first of May 1998 to the end of 2007 the total amount of repurchased shares accounts for 50 bil. €. Using the pause for breath that can be expected during the time of the recession, this text gives an up-to-date overview of share buy-backs as a means of payout. In doing so, the focus lies on the question what motivates companies to pursue a buyback and which advantages in comparison to dividends exist. Furthermore I describe effects of share repurchases, on the announcement day as well as in later periods. In critically evaluating the relevant literature, I describe the multiple motivations for performing buybacks in section 2.1. In order to do so I assign possible reasons to the three interest groups long-term shareholders, managers and short-term shareholders. I then state both legal and methodical requirements with a focus on the German market (2.2.) and show effects as stated in previous literature in part 2.3. An empirical study in part three attempts to give a more recent understanding of market price changes as the result of buybacks performed by German blue chip companies listed in the DAX 30.

Download or read book Informed Trading and False Signaling with Open Market Repurchases written by Jesse M. Fried and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public companies in the United States and elsewhere increasingly use open market stock buybacks, rather than dividends, to distribute cash to shareholders. Academic commentators have emphasized the possible benefits of such repurchases for shareholders. However, little attention has been paid to their potential drawbacks. This Article shows that managers use open market repurchases to indirectly buy stock for themselves at a bargain price. Managers also boost stock prices by announcing repurchase programs they do not intend to execute, enabling them to unload their own shares at a higher price. Such bargain repurchases and inflated-price sales systematically transfer significant amounts of value from public investors to managers, as well as distort managers' payout decisions. The Article concludes by proposing a new approach to regulating open market repurchases: requiring firms to disclose specific details of their buy orders in advance. This pre-repurchase disclosure rule, the Article shows, would undermine managers' ability to use repurchases for informed trading and false signaling, thereby reducing the resulting distortions and costs to shareholders. Moreoever, it would achieve these objectives without eroding any of the potential benefits of repurchases.

Download or read book An Empirical Investigation of Corporate Stock Repurchases written by Tony Nicholas Altobelli and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Why Do Firms Announce Open Market Repurchase Programs written by Jacob Oded and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirically, the announcement of an open-market stock repurchase program is accompanied by a price increase even though the announcement is not a commitment. In fact, for many announced programs no shares are ever actually repurchased. This paper explores this puzzle. Our model shows that the option that a firm grants itself by announcing a program cannot, by itself, generate announcement returns. In equilibrium, long-run gains from the adverse selection that this option creates are offset by short-run costs from the market's accounting for this adverse selection. Based on this trade-off, we construct a signaling model that does deliver announcement returns. In the separating equilibrium, good firms do not incur any cost when they announce a program. Their gains from adverse selection in the long run offset the cost of announcement incurred in the short run. Mimicry is costly because a bad firm's long-run gains from adverse selection cannot compensate for the short-run cost of announcing. The other main predictions of our model are that the post-announcement expected return will be relatively low in the short run but relatively high in the long run and that the post-announcement long-run return will be correlated with the level of actual repurchase. These predictions are broadly consistent with the empirical evidence.

Download or read book Announcement effects of share repurchases in India Abnormal returns or information asymmetry written by Jonas Wirth and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1.0, University of Passau, language: English, abstract: In this paper, market-based and firm-specific determinants are introduced to measure their association with abnormal returns around the announcement of a share buyback conducted through tender and open market offers in India. To test the valuation effect of market-based variables: uncertainty, which is determined by implied market volatility and economic policy uncertainty. Liquidity risk, which is investigated through two illiquidity proxies and the impact of the monetary environment, represented by the three-month Mumbai Interbank Offer Rate (MIBOR) and the gold price are included. In addition, the main firm-specific hypotheses are tested to identify potential key drivers. The valuation effects examined cover the period from April 1, 2011, to March 31, 2021, during which a total of 359 share repurchases were made, 231 through tender offer and the remaining 128 through the open market. Beside separating the two buyback methods, I examine different categories in addition to the full sample to determine whether market participants' reaction to share repurchase announcements leads to abnormal returns. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Next section provides an overview about the regulatory framework of share buyback in India. Section 3 states a brief overview about the share repurchase literature with reference to uncertainty and liquidity in global context and firm-specific literature in Indian context. Then the hypotheses are stated. Sections 5 and 6 present the methodology and data, and section 7 presents the empirical results. Section 8 provides concluding remarks.

Download or read book The Effect of Enhanced Disclosure on Open Market Stock Repurchases written by Michael Simkovic and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publicly traded companies distribute cash to shareholders primarily in two ways - either through dividends or through anonymous repurchases of the companies' own stock on the open market. Companies must announce a repurchase authorization, but do not actually have to repurchase any stock, and until recently did not have to disclose whether or not they were in fact repurchasing any stock. Scholars and regulators noticed that companies frequently announced repurchases but then appeared not to complete them. Scholars and regulators became concerned that such announcements might be used by insiders to exploit public investors. To increase transparency and reduce opportunities for exploitive behavior, the SEC required that companies disclose their repurchase activity for the past quarter in their 10-Q and 10-K filings beginning in January 2004. This paper tracks the 365 repurchase programs announced in 2004 and finds that since the SEC disclosure requirement went into effect, companies are more likely to complete their announced repurchases and do so within a shorter time period after the repurchase announcement.

Download or read book Strategic Satisficing A Behavioral Agency Perspective on Stock Repurchase Program Announcements written by Wm. Gerard Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executives confront potentially conflicting pressures - to maximize shareholder wealth in the long term and to appease shareholders in the near term. Because near-term pressures must be addressed to preserve tenure and to realize the potential benefits of long-term strategies, executives are increasingly likely to rely on shareholder mollification initiatives. We develop a behavioral-agency theoretical framework to study how stock repurchase programs are used to help top managers appease shareholders. Analysis of 250 large U.S. firms suggests that stock repurchase programs are variously a function of information asymmetry, risky stock-based incentives, and performance expectations.