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Repurchase Tender Offers and Earnings Information

Larry Dann
University of Oregon - Department of Finance

Ronald W. Masulis
Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management; Vanderbilt University - School of Law; University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business

David Mayers
University of California, Riverside - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management



Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 14, pp. 217-251, 1991

Abstract:     
Announcements of stock repurchase tender offers are examined as a source of information to the market on the firm's future earnings prospects and market risk level. We find positive average earnings surprises and equity systematic risk reductions following tender offers but not, in most instances, preceding them. We find positive stock price reactions to tender offer announcements to be positively correlated with earnings surprises over the concurrent and subsequent two years, and negatively correlated with changes in equity and firm market risk. Finally, stock price reactions to quarterly earnings announcements are more strongly correlated with time-series based earnings surprises in the year prior to the tender offer than during the subsequent year, consistent with tender offer announcements conveying earnings information to the market.

Keywords: Tender offer, stock repurchase, earnings announcement, earnings surprise, systematic risk, beta

JEL Classifications: G14, G32, G35, M41

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Date posted: August 11, 2006 ; Last revised: August 11, 2006

Suggested Citation

Dann, Larry Y., Masulis, Ronald W. and Mayers, David, Repurchase Tender Offers and Earnings Information. Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 14, pp. 217-251, 1991. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=923611


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Ronald W. Masulis (Contact Author)
Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management ( email )
401 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203
United States
615-322-3687 (Phone)
615-343-7177 (Fax)
Vanderbilt University - School of Law
131 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203-1181
United States
University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business ( email )
Sydney, NSW 2052
Australia
Larry Y. Dann
University of Oregon - Department of Finance ( email )
Lundquist College of Business
1208 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
United States
(541) 346-3330 (Phone)
David Mayers
University of California, Riverside - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management ( email )
Riverside, CA 92521
United States
909-787-3443 (Phone)
909-787-2933 (Fax)
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