Investment-based underperformance following seasoned equity offerings
By: Evgeny Lyandres, Le Sun, Lu Zhang.
Contributors: Sun, Le.; Zhang, Lu, 1972-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 11459.; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 11459.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Rate of return -- Econometric models; Investments
Description: "Adding a return factor based on capital investment into standard, calendar-time factor regressions makes underperformance following seasoned equity offerings largely insignificant and reduces its magnitude by 37-46%.  The reason is that issuers invest more than nonissuers matched on size and book-to-market.  Moreover, the low-minus-high investment-to-asset factor earns a significant average return of 0.37% per month.  Our evidence suggests that the underperformance results from the negative investment-expected return relation, as predicted by Carlson, Fisher, and Giammarino (2005)"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: "June 2005."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-27).

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