DIRECT EVIDENCE ON THE MARKET-DRIVEN ACQUISITION THEORY
We provide direct empirical evidence that share overvaluation is an important motive for firms to make stock acquisitions. We find that more overvalued firms are more likely to acquire with stock, and acquirers are more overvalued in successful stock mergers than in withdrawn mergers. Acquirers' overvaluation, on average, exceeds the targets' premium-adjusted overvaluation. Shareholders of stock acquirers, whose overvaluation is greater than their targets' premium-adjusted overvaluation, realize sustained wealth gains from one day before the merger announcement up to three years after the merger completion, as compared with a matching sample of similarly overvalued but nonacquiring firms. 2006 The Southern Finance Association and the Southwestern Finance Association.
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2006
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Authors: | Ang, James S. ; Cheng, Yingmei |
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Journal of Financial Research. - Southern Finance Association - SFA, ISSN 0270-2592. - Vol. 29.2006, 2, p. 199-216
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Southern Finance Association - SFA Southwestern Finance Association - SWFA |
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