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Author: Ghada Abbas Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 10
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According to the signaling theory, dividend announcements are usually considered as a signal to the investors, about firm's future performance, that results in stock prices changes. This study attempts to investigate the stock prices response to dividend announcement in the Damascus Securities Exchange. The purpose of the study is to identify whether there are any significant abnormal returns around the public announcement of dividend. An event study methodology is used for an event window of forty days surrounding the announcement day. Research results indicate that most average abnormal returns are statistically insignificant, whereas the cumulative average abnormal returns are statistically significant for the whole event window. The downward drift of the cumulative average abnormal returns six days after the announcement suggests that prices don't adjust immediately to dividend information. The stock reactions appear within post-event window gradually in response to the dividends announcement.
Author: Ghada Abbas Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 10
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According to the signaling theory, dividend announcements are usually considered as a signal to the investors, about firm's future performance, that results in stock prices changes. This study attempts to investigate the stock prices response to dividend announcement in the Damascus Securities Exchange. The purpose of the study is to identify whether there are any significant abnormal returns around the public announcement of dividend. An event study methodology is used for an event window of forty days surrounding the announcement day. Research results indicate that most average abnormal returns are statistically insignificant, whereas the cumulative average abnormal returns are statistically significant for the whole event window. The downward drift of the cumulative average abnormal returns six days after the announcement suggests that prices don't adjust immediately to dividend information. The stock reactions appear within post-event window gradually in response to the dividends announcement.
Author: Christoph Schleicher Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This study investigates the effects of dividend announcements on stock prices and trading volume in the Austrian stock market. Abnormal returns are established as the difference between actual returns and expected returns generated by the Market Model. We use the model of expected dividends such that any change in the announced dividend-stream is unanticipated. Our results provide evidence that announced dividend changes bring new information to the market and that stock prices move in the same direction as dividends. In addition, we find that stock prices react rather quickly to the new information. We also report an increase in stock return volatility in the cases of announced constant dividends and dividend decreases, indicating a heterogeneous interpretation of the signal at the individual level. Finally we find that trading volume on average shows a significant increase around the announcement date, supporting the hypothesis that dividend changes in either direction induce investors to revise their portfolios.
Author: Apostolos Dasilas Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 38
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This study investigates the stock market reaction of the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) to cash dividend announcements for the period 2000-2004. In particular, the paper examines both the stock price and trading volume response to company announcements about dividend distributions. The dividend distribution in Greece features remarkable differences from those of US, UK and other developed markets. First, dividends in Greece are paid on a yearly basis. Second, the corporate law designates with high accuracy the minimum amount for distribution from the net earnings. Third, neither tax on dividends nor on capital gains is imposed in Greece. Despite this restrictive informational environment, we document significant market reaction on dividend announcement dates. Similar market reaction is observed to dividend change announcements, lending support to the quot;information content of dividends hypothesisquot; which predicts market reaction on the direction of that of dividend change.
Author: John Capstaff Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 26
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This study tests the signaling theory of dividends by investigating the stock price reaction to dividend announcements on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE), and subsequent changes in the cash flows of the firms involved. This paper adds to existing evidence by examining the role of dividends in a market where the corporate ownership structure is notably different from the U.S. and the U.K., and where the motivation to use dividends as a signaling mechanism appears to be stronger. The results indicate significant abnormal stock returns are associated with announcements of dividend changes. The results are robust to alternative models of dividend expectations, after controlling for the impact of earnings announcements, and are consistent across sub-periods in the sample. The stock market reaction is most pronounced for large, positive dividend announcements that are followed by permanent cash flow increases. This evidence provides modest support for the signaling theory of dividends in Norway, but it does not support the proposition that corporate ownership structure is an important influence on the use of dividends as a signaling mechanism.
Author: Jau-Yang Liu Publisher: ISBN: Category : Abnormal returns Languages : en Pages : 12
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According to the dividend signalling theory, companies take advantage of their announcement of dividend payout policy to signal the market that the firm now has positive future prospects, which will result in changing stock prices. However, there has been no study to date exploring which factor is more significant to its possible dividends payout portfolio. This study focuses on the impact of various dividends payout policies, cash, stock, and even dual dividends, for 5870 Taiwanese companies in the electronics and non-electronics industries listed in the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) during the period from 2000-2010. The study employs event study methodology to examine the effect of a dividend announcement on the stock price within thirty days of the announcement. The results indicate that, on the whole, stock prices will show significant upward movement after dividend announcements. The observed results also explain why firms typically distribute certain dividends in certain ways and why the market might react more positively to stock dividend announcements in emerging markets.
Author: Jack J.W. Yang Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 14
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Are stock market investors concerned with obtaining abnormal returns by acquiring certain information? This paper studied the effect of ex-dividend date for cash-dividend policy. We try to demonstrate the existence of abnormal returns by examining stock trading situations before and after the ex-dividend date. We find that abnormal returns exist for listed Taiwan firms before and after the ex-dividend date. If an investor buys the stock of a firm who adopts a cash-dividend payout at the closing price 11 days before the ex-dividend date, and sells them at the closing price 10 days after the ex-dividend date, the investor will obtain an average 2.13% abnormal return, regardless of the transaction cost. This paper further analyzes whether firms adopting cash-dividend payouts have different abnormal returns on stock price performance depending on different variables. Yilmaz and Gulay's (2006) method of analyzing abnormal returns of stock prices was adopted. Further studies were undertaken of the three dimensions of cash-dividend payout ratio, stock trading turnover rate, and the firm size.
Author: Ghada Abbas
Author: Ghada Abbas
Author: Christoph Schleicher
Author: Apostolos Dasilas
Author: Elifas Megameno Iiyambula
Author: John Capstaff
Author: Jau-Yang Liu
Author: David E. Allen
Author: Eamonn McKay
Author: Jack J.W. Yang
Author: Olatundun Janet Adelegan