The IPOs of Canadian Firms via Installment Receipts: The Opening Performance and Implications for the Short-run Efficiency of the Canadian Market
This paper tracks the performance of 75 Canadian installment receipt initial public offerings (IR IPOs) from the first day of trading to up to 24 weeks after the issue. During the first trading day of the IRs, a positive average raw return of 4.5% was realized. This represents an abnormal return of...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Canadian journal of administrative sciences 2003-09, Vol.20 (3), p.224-233 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This paper tracks the performance of 75 Canadian installment receipt initial public offerings (IR IPOs) from the first day of trading to up to 24 weeks after the issue. During the first trading day of the IRs, a positive average raw return of 4.5% was realized. This represents an abnormal return of 2.57%. During the same period, the underpriced IPOs realized a net gain of 10.14%, while the overpriced IPOs realized a net loss of 4.3%. The magnitude of underpricing increased during the first month of aftermarket trading before being eliminated. This confirms the existence of short‐term trends in the aftermarket prices of the IR IPOs and points to the existence of short‐run investor overreaction in the IR IPO market. Our results also confirm IPO underpricing theory, documented in the literature: that the greater the exante uncertainty surrounding the value of the issue the greater the degree of underpricing. The ex‐ante uncertainty proxy variables found to have signficant effect on underpricing are the size of the issue, the age of the issuing firm, the total risk, the market risk, the commission rate, and liquidity of the issue. We also found a significant difference in the degrees of underpricing for IPOs with IR only and those with both IR and fully paid common shares and also for unit trust and common stock IPOs. IR common stock IPOs are found to be more underpriced than IR unit trust IPOs.
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Dans cet article nous évaluons les résultats boursiers de Premiers appels publics à l'épargne offrant l'option de Versements échelonnés (PAPE‐VE), du premier jour de transaction jusqu'à la 24e semaine après leur émission. Le premier jour de la transaction, les titres VE obtiennent un rendement brut moyen de 4,5%, soit un rendement anormal de 2,57%. Pendant la même période, les PAPE sous‐évalués réalisent un bénéfice net de 10,14% tandis que les PAPE surévalués perdent 4,3%. Cette sousévaluation se poursuit pendant le premier mois de transaction après bourse avant d'être éliminée par la suite. Cette situation confirme l'existence de tendances conjoncturelles dans les transactions après bourse des PAPE‐VE et met en exergue la réaction démesurée à court terme des partenaires du marché. Nos résultats confirment la théorie de la sous‐évaluation des PAPE amplement documentée dans la littérature. D'après cette théorie, plus le niveau de l'incertitude relative à la valeur de l'émission est élevé, plus la sous‐évaluation est grande. Les indicateurs d'incertitude reliés d |
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ISSN: | 0825-0383 1936-4490 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1936-4490.2003.tb00313.x |