The present study provides evidence for the long run post-acquisition share performance of acquirer companies traded on Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the period of 1998 to 2017. This study employs an event study methodology, a buy-and-hold abnormal return approach (BHAR) to compute the...

This paper investigates the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on stock market in KSA applying an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) cointegration approach. More especially, we analyze the relationship between the natural logarithm of trading volume of Tadawull All shares index (TASI) and the...

The study explores the relationship between the profitability (measured by ROI, ROE and NPR)and the stock market prices of the Petrochemical Industry Firms in Saudi Arabia during the period 2008-2015.We used the multiple regression model to estimate the relationship between the independent...

This study examines the short-and-long-run share performance of IPO companies listed on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange (Tadawul) from 1st January 2000 to 31st August 2017. 45 IPO companies were included in this study. This study employs the event time approach and abnormal returns are...

Lately, investors' sentiment has become one of the major concentrations of finance literature on asset pricing model. Many research findings argued that changes in investors' sentiment measure could have an impact on stock returns and volatility and that investors' sentiment might be an...

The objective of this paper is to conduct an analysis on a very significant behavioral finance issue discussed in its recent studies; namely, the relationship between investors' sentiment and the returns of stock markets. This study will be conducted in the context of the Saudi stock exchange...