Share price performance surrounding share buyback event in Malaysia / Lim Keng Tee

Since 1997 Asian financial crisis, companies listed in Bursa Malaysia are allowed to repurchase its share. Since then share buyback has become a common tools for the companies to signal undervaluation of share price and to sustain share price. This paper studies the CAR surrounding share buyback eve...

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Main Author: Lim, Keng Tee
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Published: 2010
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description Since 1997 Asian financial crisis, companies listed in Bursa Malaysia are allowed to repurchase its share. Since then share buyback has become a common tools for the companies to signal undervaluation of share price and to sustain share price. This paper studies the CAR surrounding share buyback event over a sampling period from 2006 until 2009 for companies listed in FBM Top 100 index. The result shows that cumulative abnormal return subsequent a share buyback event is 0.26% and 0.53% for CAR (0, 2) and CAR (0, 20) respectively that signifies positive share price performance after share buyback. This paper also reaffirmed that share buyback are performed when share price is underperforming the market, where the CAR (-21,-1) is recorded at -0.44%. Market capitalization size is found to be inversely related with share price performance subsequent from share buyback event. On the other end, share price performance presented consistent increasing pattern across BTM quartile from low BTM to high BTM. This mean share price performance is direct related to the book-to-market ratio, but the regression model found to be not significant. Share buyback volume does not show particular pattern and the regression model also found that it is not significantly related to the share price performance.
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spelling um-35602013-07-10T05:04:21Z Share price performance surrounding share buyback event in Malaysia / Lim Keng Tee Lim, Keng Tee H Social Sciences (General) HG Finance Since 1997 Asian financial crisis, companies listed in Bursa Malaysia are allowed to repurchase its share. Since then share buyback has become a common tools for the companies to signal undervaluation of share price and to sustain share price. This paper studies the CAR surrounding share buyback event over a sampling period from 2006 until 2009 for companies listed in FBM Top 100 index. The result shows that cumulative abnormal return subsequent a share buyback event is 0.26% and 0.53% for CAR (0, 2) and CAR (0, 20) respectively that signifies positive share price performance after share buyback. This paper also reaffirmed that share buyback are performed when share price is underperforming the market, where the CAR (-21,-1) is recorded at -0.44%. Market capitalization size is found to be inversely related with share price performance subsequent from share buyback event. On the other end, share price performance presented consistent increasing pattern across BTM quartile from low BTM to high BTM. This mean share price performance is direct related to the book-to-market ratio, but the regression model found to be not significant. Share buyback volume does not show particular pattern and the regression model also found that it is not significantly related to the share price performance. 2010-11 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3560/4/1._Title_page%2C_abstract_or_synopsis%2C_table_of_contents.pdf application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3560/5/2._Full_text%2Cchapters.pdf application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3560/6/3._References_%26_appendix.pdf http://www.pendeta.um.edu.my/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/5/3?searchdata1=854042{CKEY}&searchfield1=GENERAL^SUBJECT^GENERAL^^&user_id=WEBSERVER Lim, Keng Tee (2010) Share price performance surrounding share buyback event in Malaysia / Lim Keng Tee. Masters thesis, University of Malaya. http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3560/
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HG Finance
Lim, Keng Tee
Share price performance surrounding share buyback event in Malaysia / Lim Keng Tee
title Share price performance surrounding share buyback event in Malaysia / Lim Keng Tee
title_full Share price performance surrounding share buyback event in Malaysia / Lim Keng Tee
title_fullStr Share price performance surrounding share buyback event in Malaysia / Lim Keng Tee
title_full_unstemmed Share price performance surrounding share buyback event in Malaysia / Lim Keng Tee
title_short Share price performance surrounding share buyback event in Malaysia / Lim Keng Tee
title_sort share price performance surrounding share buyback event in malaysia / lim keng tee
topic H Social Sciences (General)
HG Finance
url http://www.pendeta.um.edu.my/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/5/3?searchdata1=854042{CKEY}&searchfield1=GENERAL^SUBJECT^GENERAL^^&user_id=WEBSERVER
http://www.pendeta.um.edu.my/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/5/3?searchdata1=854042{CKEY}&searchfield1=GENERAL^SUBJECT^GENERAL^^&user_id=WEBSERVER
http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3560/4/1._Title_page%2C_abstract_or_synopsis%2C_table_of_contents.pdf
http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3560/5/2._Full_text%2Cchapters.pdf
http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3560/6/3._References_%26_appendix.pdf