Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive initial evaluation of divestiture gains for reacquired carve‐out parent and subsidiary second event and three‐year returns for the period 1980‐2010. Design/methodology/approach – Using several variables, we contrast...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive initial evaluation of the Super Bowl Indicator (SBI) from 1966 to 2015. Design/methodology/approach The authors evaluate the predictive ability of the SBI over two different time periods on four stock market indexes. Also, the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the survivability of 810 reverse splits during the 1995-2006 period and show that companies that undertake reverse stock splits often fail within a relatively short time following the split. Design/methodology/approach – Applying both a logit...