Order Flow Patterns around Seasoned Equity Offerings and their Implications for Stock Price Movements

ABSTRACT In this study, we employ order imbalance measures to provide evidence that there is cross‐sectional heterogeneity in investor reactions to seasoned equity offerings (SEOs). The normally positive relation between imbalances and returns disappears for trade number imbalances but remains intac...

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Published inInternational review of finance Vol. 5; no. 1-2; pp. 75 - 111
Main Authors HUH, SAHN-WOOK, SUBRAHMANYAM, AVANIDHAR
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2005
Subjects
Correlation analysis
Equity financing
Rates of return
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Summary:ABSTRACT In this study, we employ order imbalance measures to provide evidence that there is cross‐sectional heterogeneity in investor reactions to seasoned equity offerings (SEOs). The normally positive relation between imbalances and returns disappears for trade number imbalances but remains intact for dollar imbalances following SEOs. The return‐imbalance delinkage is most pronounced for SEO stocks in which institutions (non‐institutions) are net sellers (buyers). We also find that the SEO portfolio in which large institutional investors are net sellers strongly underperforms the complementary portfolio in which they are net buyers.
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We appreciate the constructive and thoughtful comments of Bruce Grundy (the editor) and an anonymous referee. We also thank Antonio Bernardo, Mi-Ae Kim, Unyong Pyo, Rossen Valkanov, Neal Stoughton, and seminar participants at UCLA, Brock University, Singapore Management University, National University of Singapore, SKKU, KAIST, and the 2005 Northern Finance Association Meetings, for valuable feedback. We express special thanks to Xiao Chen of the UCLA Academic Technology Services for providing useful programming assistance. Huh gratefully acknowledges generous financial support from the Office of Research Services at Brock University. All errors are solely ours.
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We appreciate the constructive and thoughtful comments of Bruce Grundy (the editor) and an anonymous referee. We also thank Antonio Bernardo, Mi‐Ae Kim, Unyong Pyo, Rossen Valkanov, Neal Stoughton, and seminar participants at UCLA, Brock University, Singapore Management University, National University of Singapore, SKKU, KAIST, and the 2005 Northern Finance Association Meetings, for valuable feedback. We express special thanks to Xiao Chen of the UCLA Academic Technology Services for providing useful programming assistance. Huh gratefully acknowledges generous financial support from the Office of Research Services at Brock University. All errors are solely ours.
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ISSN:1369-412X
1468-2443
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2443.2006.00052.x