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The Impact of Preferred‐for‐Common Exchange Offers on Firm Value
Author(s) -
PINEGAR J. MICHAEL,
LEASE RONALD C.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
the journal of finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 18.151
H-Index - 299
eISSN - 1540-6261
pISSN - 0022-1082
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1986.tb04549.x
Subject(s) - capital structure , enterprise value , stock exchange , affect (linguistics) , agency cost , business , monetary economics , value (mathematics) , agency (philosophy) , capital (architecture) , financial economics , economics , accounting , finance , shareholder , corporate governance , linguistics , debt , history , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , machine learning , computer science
This paper examines the impact of capital structure changes which have no corporate tax consequences. Specifically, exchange offers involving preferred and common stock are analyzed. We find that systematic changes in firm value occur when companies announce preferred‐for‐common exchange offers. Consequently, we interpret our results to be consistent with a signalling hypothesis. We also find weaker evidence suggesting the existence of agency cost effects or wealth redistributions across security classes. Our findings imply that capital structure changes need not alter the tax status of the issuing firm to affect firm value.