Download or read book Corporate Diversification and Firm Value written by Stefan Erdorf and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We survey the recent literature on corporate diversification. How does corporate diversification influence firm value? Does it create or destroy value? Until the beginning of this century, the predominant thinking among researchers and practitioners was that corporate diversification leads to an average discount on firm value; however, several studies cast doubt on the diversification discount. In the last decade, there has been no clear consensus as to whether there is a discount or even a premium on firm value. Recent literature concludes that the effect on value differs from firm to firm and that corporate diversification alone does not drive the discount or premium; rather, the effect is heterogeneous across certain industry settings, economic conditions, and governance structures.
Download or read book Strategic Business Fits and Corporate Acquisition Empirical Evidence written by Lois M. Shelton and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Corporate Diversification and Firm Value During Economic Downturns written by Nikanor Volkov and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the effect of corporate diversification on firm value during periods of economic downturns. Analysis of diversified firms' valuation during recessionary periods reveals a significant increase in relative value of diversified firms. The observed improvement in the relative valuation is only a temporary phenomenon, which disappears in the four quarters following the trough of the recession. We do not find support to the hypothesis that the improvement in relative valuation of diversified firms during economic downturns is attributed to the ability of diversified firms to utilize broader external capital markets. We demonstrate that the improvement in relative valuation is largely driven by diversified firms that are financially constrained, and, therefore, attribute the observed improvement to more efficient internal capital allocation during recessions.
Download or read book Essays on Corporate Diversification and Firm Value written by Tyson Brighton Mackey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation finds new evidence on the relationship between diversification and firm performance. In Chapter Two, theory and evidence are presented showing how empirical studies accounting for the endogeneity of the diversification decision must also account for a firm's alternative uses for its free cash flow. This chapter examines dividends and stock repurchases in tandem with the firm's diversification decision and finds that the factors that lead a firm to diversify also make it more likely to pay a dividend. Controlling for this relationship, the diversification premium found by recent research correcting for endogeneity turns back into a discount. In Chapter Three, consideration is given to the possibility that different firms can have differing results from diversification. Using a random parameters model, a distribution of firm-specific diversification effects is estimated, finding that, while diversification destroys value on average, it creates value for a quarter of firms. This chapter also hypothesizes that firms may have an optimal portfolio of businesses, and firms that are not creating value from diversification could potentially do so through by diversifying further. Through a series of hypothetical related and unrelated diversification scenarios, this chapter finds that almost half of the diversified firms who are not creating value through their past diversification efforts would create value from further related diversification; while very few of the firms that are currently creating value from diversification would create value from further diversification. After observing the heterogeneity across firms in the impact of diversification on firm performance, theory and evidence is presented on the source of this heterogeneity in Chapter Four. Using a Bayesian linear hierarchical model, firm-specific effects of diversification on firm performance are estimated as a function of firm attributes. The main finding is that the firm-specific resources that allow a firm to succeed in its original business, allow the firm to succeed through related diversification. Unsuccessful firms will not find success simply by finding a new market in which to compete.
Download or read book Corporate Diversification Asymmetric Information and Firm Value written by Shawn Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no clear theoretical consensus about the overall effect of firm diversification on the magnitude of asymmetric information problems that firms face. We therefore compare stock market based measures of asymmetric information for diversified firms with those they could reasonably expect to exhibit if they were split along industry lines into separately traded entities. We find that approximately 74% of the diversified firms in our sample have less severe asymmetric information problems as conglomerates than they could expect to experience as separately traded pure-play firms. We also find evidence that diversified firms with low levels of information asymmetry trade at significant diversification premiums while diversified firms with high levels of information asymmetry trade at significant diversification discounts.
Download or read book The Effect of Corporate Diversification on Firm Value written by Samson Weldeslassie and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate Diversification Exclusive Compensation and Firm Value written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Firm Diversification written by Xuejing Xing and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation focuses on firm diversification. In particular, this dissertation investigates the valuation effects and the risk effects of corporate diversification. The dissertation consists of two essays. Essay 1, "The diversification discount and growth opportunities: Another look at the effect of corporate diversification on firm value," investigates whether corporate diversification reduces firm value. Previous studies establish a diversification discount by comparing business segments of diversified firms with stand-alone industry medians (means). However, business segments in diversified firms and the median (mean) stand-alone firms in the same industry may not be comparable because they may have different growth opportunities, which usually constitute a significant portion of firm value. Consequently, the observed diversification discount may result from the inappropriate use of benchmarks. In this essay, we use individual stand-alone industry firms of similar growth opportunities as benchmarks for business segments in diversified firms. Using a sample of 218 diversifying firms covering the period of 1994-2000, we find that when business segments in diversifying firms are compared with their stand-alone industry counterparts of comparable growth opportunities, the diversification discount still exists. We thus provide evidence suggesting that corporate diversification does destroy firm value, which is consistent with Lang and Stulz (1994), Berger and Ofek (1995, 1999), and Lamont and Polk (2002). Essay 2, "Does corporate diversification reduce firm risk? An empirical analysis," investigates whether corporate diversification reduces firm risk. While it has been argued and generally assumed that corporate diversification reduces firm risk, there is a paucity of empirical evidence concerning the association between corporate diversification and lower firm risk. Given the observed puzzles associated with corporate diversification, one should not take this association for granted without empirical evidence. In this essay, we empirically investigate the relationship between corporate diversification and firm risk using various risk measures including the variance of stock returns, systematic risk and firm-specific risk measures based both on the traditional single-factor market model and the Fama and French (1993) three-factor model, and time-varying risk estimates based on generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) estimations. Using a sample of 257 diversifying firms defined as firms that start with a single segment and then diversify at some point of time during the sample period of 1994-2000, we find that rather than reducing firm risk, corporate diversification typically increases the levels of firm risk, thereby rejecting the risk reduction hypothesis of firm diversification.
Download or read book The Effect of Diversification on Firm Value written by Lan Xu and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most research on corporate diversification focuses on conventional least squares methods, including ordinary least squares (OLS) and panel regressions. However, it has been recognized that the resulting estimates of various effects on the conditional mean of firm value are not necessarily indicative of the size and nature of these effects on different firms. In this paper I apply quantile analysis to study the heterogeneity in the effect of corporate diversification as well as other firm characteristics on firm value.
Download or read book Corporate Diversification Firm Value and Financial Management written by Tat Thang Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diversification Refocusing and Economic Performance written by Constantinos Markides and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the causes and consequences of the "refocusing" phenomenon, where companies have stopped diversifying and begun focusing once more on their core product lines. Coverage includes a discussion of the effects of refocusing on market value, profitability and organizational structure.
Download or read book Addressing Endogeneity written by He, Xi and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate Diversification Executive Compensation and Firm Value written by Chongwoo Choe and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We estimate the effect of corporate diversification on firm value using a sample of 766 segment-year observations during 2004-2008 for firms listed on the Australian Stock Exchange as of August 2009. In addition to conventionally used measures of diversification, we develop five new measures of diversification that explicitly take into account the degree to which a multi-segment firm's various segments are in related lines of business. We use three different excess value measures to estimate the valuation effect of diversification. We find that multi-segment firms in our sample enjoyed a significant diversification premium that ranges from 12.4% to 18% depending on the measures of diversification and excess value. We also find some evidence that multi-segment firms benefit more from diversification when their executives are motivated more through long-term incentives such as stock and stock options.
Download or read book Why firms diversify written by Randall Morck and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global diversification industrial diversification and firm value written by David J. Denis and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Geographic Diversification on Firm Performance written by Young Sang Kim and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper empirically examines the economic effects of both corporate industrial and geographic diversifications. Using a sample of 28,050 firm year observations from 1990 to 1998, we find that industrial and geographic diversifications are associated with firm value decrease. Consistent with Denis et al. (2002), the costs of corporate diversification may outweigh the benefits of diversification. We find that geographically diversified firms have higher Ramp;D expenditures, advertising expenses, operating income, ROE and ROA than industrially diversified firms. In addition, higher Ramp;D expenditures create value for multi-segment global firms, but not for single segment global firms. This result implies that there exists an interaction effect between industrial and geographic diversification. We also examine the effects of agency cost issues, as characterized by the diversification discount, on both industrial and geographic diversification. Consistent with the agency explanation, firms with high equity-based compensation are associated with higher firm value than firms with low equity-based compensation. Also, we find that firms with a higher insider ownership percentage are associated with higher excess value.
Download or read book The Impact of Corporate Industrial and International Diversification on Firm Value written by Thomas-Reinhold Kreye and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
