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DIRECT EVIDENCE ON THE MARKET‐DRIVEN ACQUISITION THEORY
Author(s) -
Ang James S.,
Cheng Yingmei
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of financial research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.319
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1475-6803
pISSN - 0270-2592
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6803.2006.00174.x
Subject(s) - shareholder , monetary economics , business , stock (firearms) , mergers and acquisitions , empirical evidence , stock market , propensity score matching , financial system , economics , finance , corporate governance , medicine , mechanical engineering , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , horse , engineering , biology
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firms are more likely to acquire with stock, and acquirers are more overvalued in successful stock mergers than in withdrawn mergers.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.