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Capital Investments and Stock ReturnsK. C. John WeiHong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance Feixue XieSouthern Connecticut State University - Department of Economics and Finance Sheridan TitmanUniversity of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) April 2001 Abstract: Firms that spend the most on capital investments relative to their sales or total assets, subsequently achieve negative benchmark-adjusted returns. We consider two hypotheses to explain these returns. The first explanation, that firms artificially increase cash flows to fund investment expenditures, suggests that the negative relation between returns and investment expenditures should be strongest for the most financially constrained firms. The second explanation, that firms that invest a lot tend to be over-investing, suggests that the negative relation between returns and investment expenditures should be strongest for firms with the most financial slack. The evidence tends to support the second explanation. That is, the negative capital investment/return relation is stronger for firms with higher cash flows and lower debt ratios and reverses in the period when firms of this type were subject to hostile takeovers.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 33 Keywords: Investment, stock returns, financial constraints, free cash flow JEL Classification: G0, G3 working papers seriesDate posted: May 9, 2001Suggested CitationContact Information
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