Do share repurchases impact analysts' activity and informativeness ?
de La Bruslerie, Hubert (2019), Do share repurchases impact analysts' activity and informativeness ?, in Cheng-Few Lee, Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, vol. 16, World Scientific : Singapore, p. 267-309. 10.6293/AQAFA.201812_16.0009
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Chapitre d'ouvrageDate
2019Book title
Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, vol. 16Book author
Cheng-Few LeePublisher
World Scientific
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Singapore
ISBN
1046-5847
Number of pages
390Pages
267-309
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Share repurchases announcement are discretionary transactions that stimulate analyst's activity. We use the multi-dimensional concept of informativeness to capture the integration of information in the stock prices. Our empirical test comprises American and European buybacks in the period 2000-2013. We refer to three independent measures of informativeness: the synchronicity measure introduced by Roll (1988), the Amihud (2002) illiquidity ratio, and the Llorente, Michaely, Saar, and Wang (2002) measure. We relate these three measures to analysts' activity in earning forecasting. We show that share repurchase decisions initiate a process, stimulate revisions by analysts, but do not systematically improve the informativeness of stock prices. An effective information process may develop if first it is pegged on negative cumulative abnormal return (CAR) values, and/or if the analysts are revising downward their earnings forecasts. We also highlight that informativeness improves asymmetrically depending on whether a change in the dividend policy occurs simultaneously.Subjects / Keywords
Cumulative Abnormal Returns; Illiquidity Ratio; Synchronicity; Earning Forecasts RevisionsRelated items
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