Fundamentals, Market Timing, and Seasoned Equity Offerings / Harry DeAngelo, Linda DeAngelo, René M. Stulz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeAngelo, Harry.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

DeAngelo, Linda.

Stulz, René M.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13285.

NBER working paper series no. w13285

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.

Summary:

Firms conduct SEOs to resolve a near-term liquidity squeeze, and not primarily to exploit market timing opportunities. Without the SEO proceeds, 62.6% of issuers would have insufficient cash to implement their chosen operating and non-SEO financing decisions the year after the SEO. Although the SEO decision is positively related to a firm's market-to-book (M/B) ratio and prior excess stock return and negatively related to its future excess return, these relations are economically immaterial. For example, a 150% swing in future net of market stock returns (from a 75% gain to a 75% loss over three years) increases by only 1% the probability of an SEO in the immediately prior year. Strikingly, most firms with quintessential "market timer" characteristics fail to issue stock and a non-trivial number of mature firms do issue stock, with current and former dividend payers raising more than half of all issue proceeds.

Notes:

Print version record

July 2007.