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Over the past several years initial public offerings (IPOs) have, once again, become very popular. This period can be characterized as a period of a high number of IPOs, a large amount of capital raised through them, and a very high investor interest in them. These characteristics are typical of a "hot" IPO market. During this latest period of IPO boom, the number of technology IPOs and their initial return increased significantly. But do such IPOs reward investors in a long run? Many previous studies indicate that IPOs generate high initial returns, significantly under perform the market over the long term, and exhibit declining operating performance in the post-IPO years. This study examines the post-IPO long-term price/return performance and operating performance of a portfolio of technology IPOs. The sample of IPO firms is from those that went public in 1995. The returns on the price weighted portfolio and on the equally weighted portfolio are measured to determine the price/return performance from January of 1996 till December of 1999. These portfolio returns are compared to the returns on the NASDAQ index for a comparable time period. Several variables indicative of the portfolio's operating performance such as operating cash flow, sales, total assets, and capital expenditures are analyzed over a four-year period following the IPO. Results show that the sample firms grow rapidly in terms of sales, capital expenditures, and total assets. Their operating performance, however, declines over time. This is associated with declining price/return performance over the four-year period. Results of this study are consistent with earlier results reported by other researchers.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references. / This thesis contains two chapters. Chapter One provides definitive evidence about the effect of discretionary current accruals on the pricing of IPOs. Specifically, I seek to discriminate between two alternative explanations for the prior findings: 1) behavioral biases coupled with limited arbitrage; and 2) the sample- and period-specific nature of the results in the prior literature. Using hand-gathered accrual data for all IPOs from 1926 to 1961 and machine-readable accrual data for all IPOs from 1962 to 1998, I obtain the following results. First, I fail to observe a negative association between discretionary current accruals and subsequent price performance for the 1926 to 1971 period. Second, my analysis reveals that the pattern of cross-sectional evidence is inconsistent with the predictions made by behavioral theories. Third, in the 1972 to 1998 period, evidence of predictable negative performance attributable to IPO discretionary current accruals is limited to NASDAQ firms. Overall, these findings are difficult to reconcile with mispricing as an outcome of investor behavioral biases correlated across individuals. Chapter Two examines how financial statement informativeness, analyst following, and company news relate to the information asymmetry between insiders and outsiders. Corporations' timely disclosures of value relevant information and information collection by outsiders reduce information asymmetry, limiting insiders' ability to trade profitably on private information. We use the profitability and intensity of insider trades to proxy for information asymmetry. We find that increased analyst following is associated with reduced profitability of insider trades and reduced insider purchases. Financial statement / (cont.) informativeness is negatively associated with the frequency of insider purchases. However, company news, good or bad, is positively associated with insider purchase frequency. / by Xu Li. / Ph.D.