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Investment Opportunities and the Market Reaction to Equity Offerings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

David J. Denis
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Abstract

This paper examines the relation between the market reaction to primary seasoned equity offerings and alternative measures of the profitability of the issuing firm's growth opportunities. While the sample offerings display a positive relation between announcement period prediction errors and several ex ante measures of growth opportunities, this relation is not monotonic and appears to be driven by a small subset of younger, higher growth firms, whose announcement effects are insignificantly different from zero. For the remainder of the sample firms, there is no relation between the estimated profitability of new investment and the market reaction to announced equity offerings. Moreover, announcement effects are nonpositive regardless of how profitable investment opportunities are expected to be. These findings collectively suggest that investment opportunities play, at best, a minor role in explaining the cross-sectional distribution of equity offering announcement effects.

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 1994 , pp. 159 - 177
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1994

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