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The performance of acquisitions by high default risk bidders

The performance of acquisitions by high default risk bidders
The performance of acquisitions by high default risk bidders
We investigate the takeover strategies of high default risk acquirers and their value impact. We find that these bidders select bigger, less profitable and unrelated targets, pursue transactions during recessions, and pay with shares by offering target shareholders high premiums. Their long-term buy-and-hold returns are extremely negative, and reflect fundamentally their substantial drop in profitability combined with high leverage. We show that the well-established long-run underperformance of acquiring firms is largely driven by this sub-set of acquirers. The results are similar when we use alternative measures of default risk and performance, and a global sample of non-US bidders.
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Bruyland, Evy
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Lasfer, Meziane
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De Maeseneire, Wouter
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Song, Wei
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Bruyland, Evy
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Lasfer, Meziane
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Song, Wei
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Bruyland, Evy, Lasfer, Meziane, De Maeseneire, Wouter and Song, Wei (2019) The performance of acquisitions by high default risk bidders. Journal of Banking & Finance, 101, 37-58. (doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2019.01.019).

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We investigate the takeover strategies of high default risk acquirers and their value impact. We find that these bidders select bigger, less profitable and unrelated targets, pursue transactions during recessions, and pay with shares by offering target shareholders high premiums. Their long-term buy-and-hold returns are extremely negative, and reflect fundamentally their substantial drop in profitability combined with high leverage. We show that the well-established long-run underperformance of acquiring firms is largely driven by this sub-set of acquirers. The results are similar when we use alternative measures of default risk and performance, and a global sample of non-US bidders.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 January 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 February 2019
Published date: 1 April 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 433990
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/433990
ISSN: 0378-4266
PURE UUID: 8763b6b5-5eb2-4d13-9819-0654b3f49732

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Date deposited: 10 Sep 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 08:11

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Author: Evy Bruyland
Author: Meziane Lasfer
Author: Wouter De Maeseneire
Author: Wei Song

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