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An empirical examination of forecast disclosure by bidding companies

Brennan, Niamh - 2000

This paper examines voluntary disclosure of profit forecasts by bidding companies during takeovers. Disclosure is …

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Accountants' reports on profit forecasts : regulation and practice

Brennan, Niamh; Gray, S. J. - 2000

Profit forecasts are rarely disclosed in the UK except in prospectuses, circulars and during takeover bids. There are few regulations governing the content of profit forecasts. Under stock exchange rules these forecasts must be reported on by both reporting accountants and the merchant bankers...

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Merger arbitrage and the interaction betweentarget and bidder stocks during takeover bids

Hutson, Elaine; Kearney, Colm - 2005

-swap takeovers. We argue that this can beexplained by both bidder and target reflecting the likelihood of success of the takeover …

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The impact on UK acquirers of domestic, cross‐border, public and private acquisitions

Conn, Robert L.; Cosh, Andy; Guest, Paul M.; Hughes, Alan - 2005

We examine the announcement and post‐acquisition share returns of UK acquirers in over 4,000 acquisitions of domestic, cross‐border, public and private targets. Domestic public acquisitions result in negative announcement and post‐acquisition returns, whilst cross‐border public...

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The Impact of Employee Shareholding Option Plans on Company Performance in South Africa

Motswenyane, Papillon - 2011

Employee Share Option Plans (ESOPs) are widely applied in the South African context to disseminate wealth to Historically Disadvantaged South Africans (HDSAs). This opinion is affirmed by an increased application of the concept on a number of Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE)...

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Corporate payout in South Africa: have share repurchases replaced cash dividends?

Ramorwa, Botsang Phomolo - 2012

A generous amount of research on payout policies has reported that the trends of payout policieshave changed overtime. The common pattern in most of these studies is that fifty years ago cashdividend was the most dominant and favourable form of payout, but this pattern was notmaintained and saw...

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Modified neural network algorithms for predicting trading signals of stock market indices

Tilakaratne, Chandima; Mammadov, Musa; Morris, Sidney - 2009

sell shares (trading signals) of stock market indices. Most commonly used classification techniques are not successful in …

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INVESTING PSYCHOLOGY - KEY ELEMENT IN THE EVOLUTION OF SHARE PRICE OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE LISTED ENTITIES

Susu, Stefanita - 2017

"panic selling" specific to group mentality, on the other hand. The price of shares on the stock exchange is getting formed … demand, the higher the price is, namely those who want to buy shares are more than those who want to sell them, and inversely … background. The price of shares can be influenced by the general market sentiment and investors' psychology. This is difficult to …

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TRANSFER OF SHARES– SIGNIFICANCE, JURIDICAL BASIS, PRACTICE

LEUCIUC, EUGENIA GABRIELA - 2018

transfer of shares within a limited liability company. Until recently, the transactions having as object the selling-buying of … shares were structured in such a manner that they would respond, in the best way possible, to the common interests of the … buyer and the seller, while the registration of the transfer of shares in the Trade Register would, in most cases, appear as …

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Diffusion of corporate governance practices : the Dutch response to pressures for shareholder value

Bezemer, Pieter-Jan; Zajac, Edward; Van den Bosch, Frans; … - 2011

As part of a larger literature focused on identifying and relating the antecedents and consequences of diffusing organizational practices/ideas, recent research has debated the international adoption of a shareholder-value-orientation (SVO). The debate has financial economists characterizing the...

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