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

Lim, Keng Tee (2010) Share price performance surrounding share buyback event in Malaysia / Lim Keng Tee. Masters thesis, University of Malaya.

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        Abstract

        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.

        Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
        Additional Information: Submitted to the Graduate School of Business Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Business Administration
        Uncontrolled Keywords: Bursa Saham Kuala Lumpur; Stocks; Share Price; Buyback Event; Business enterprises--Econometric models;
        Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
        H Social Sciences > HG Finance
        Divisions: Faculty of Business and Accountancy
        Depositing User: Ms. Asma Nadia Zanol Rashid
        Date Deposited: 10 May 2013 12:20
        Last Modified: 10 Jul 2013 13:04
        URI: http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/id/eprint/3560

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