TSEC and OTC listed companies conduct capital increase by retained earnings and stock dividend distribution numerously and that weakens performance of return on equity (ROE), return on asset (ROA) and earnings per share (EPS) and increases stress on managements. Since Formosa International Hotels Corporation pioneered in reducing capital and returning cash to shareholders, this topic has commonly discussed in capital market. Has a company been unable to utilize cash efficiently, reducing capital followed by returning cash to shareholders is a practical option to elevate financial ratio. This study discusses the effect on stock price subsequent to announcement of reducing capital followed by returning cash to shareholders.
This study adopts event study to discuss the effect on stock price after declaring reducing capital and returning cash to shareholders and the sample size covers 27 TSEC and OTC listed companies which conducted capital reduction followed by returning cash to shareholders. The results are as follows: 1.The stock price shows positive effect when a company announces reducing capital followed by returning cash to shareholders for the first time. On the date of announcement and the first date after announcement, the average abnormal returns are generated evidently. Accumulated abnormal returns reach the highest level on the date of announcement and the first two days after announcement. Therefore, announcement effect of reducing capital followed by returning cash to shareholders is effective in short term. 2.Based on regression model analysis, return on asset, ratio of reducing capital and P/E ratio are positively correlated with announcement of reducing capital followed by returning cash to shareholders.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0703109-154455 |
| Date | 03 July 2009 |
| Creators | Kuo, Lee-yuan |
| Contributors | Pei-how Huang, David Shyu, Ming-rea Kao |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0703109-154455 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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