Stock Price Reactions And Long Run Performance Of Rule 144A Equity Issuance

Abstract

This paper examines the valuation effect of Rule 144A equity offers on issuing firms common stocks for the period 1970 to 2010. Similar to findings for seasoned equity offerings, I find a statistically significant cumulative abnormal return of -3.07 percent over the three-day issue period for the overall sample of 160 Rule 144A equity offers. Further, I find that issuing firms exhibit significant long-run under-performance in stock returns over the three years after the issuance of Rule 144A equity offers. The results are consistent with the under-reaction hypothesis.