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Do Stock-Financed Acquisitions Destroy Value? New Methods and Evidence

Golubov, Andrey; Petmezas, Dimitris; Travlos, Nickolaos G.

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Andrey Golubov

Nickolaos G. Travlos



Abstract

We contribute to the debate on whether stock-financed acquisitions destroy value for shareholders. A stock-financed acquisition is a joint takeover/equity-issue event. Using seasoned equity offering announcement returns, we estimate through linear prediction and propensity-score matching the share price drop that stock acquirers experience due to the financing choice. Net of this effect, stock-financed acquisitions are not value destructive, and the method of payment generally has no further explanatory power in the cross-section of acquirer returns. Our evidence is largely inconsistent with the agency costs of overvalued equity hypothesis.

Citation

Golubov, A., Petmezas, D., & Travlos, N. G. (2016). Do Stock-Financed Acquisitions Destroy Value? New Methods and Evidence. Review of Finance, 20(1), 161-200. https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfv009

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 19, 2015
Online Publication Date Apr 11, 2015
Publication Date 2016-03
Deposit Date Jul 29, 2020
Publicly Available Date Jul 29, 2020
Journal Review of Finance
Print ISSN 1572-3097
Electronic ISSN 1573-692X
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 20
Issue 1
Pages 161-200
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfv009
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1259519
Related Public URLs https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/820736/

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