Cash flows risk, capital structure, and corporate bond yields

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-420
Author(s):  
Berardino Palazzo

2020 ◽  

This paper examines the relationship between financial constraints and the stock returns explaining the pricing of stock through financially constrained and unconstrained firms in Pakistan. Three proxies; total assets, tangible to total assets and cash holding to total assets ratios) have been used for financial constraints and the study tried to investigate that either the investors are compensated for taking the extra risk or not in Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). We find that the financially constrained firms don’t earn higher returns when their capital structure is heavy with liquid assets and their cash flows are more than the unconstrained firms in PSX. Moreover, the time series results showed that the risk-adjusted returns of the most constrained firms give the mix and somewhat negative and significant and insignificant results for the Pakistani firms listed in PSX sorted based on tangible to total assets and Cash holding to total asset ratios. Keywords: Asset Pricing, Financial constraints, risk-adjusted performance of portfolios



2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven T. Anderson ◽  
Gurmeet Singh Bhabra ◽  
Harjeet S. Bhabra ◽  
Asjeet S. Lamba

We study the information content of corporate bond rating changes regarding future earnings and dividends. Consistent with previous findings, rating downgrades are associated with negative abnormal stock returns, while rating upgrades appear to be nonevents. For downgrades, earnings decline in the two years prior to and the year of the rating change announcement but increase in the year after the rating review. We also find that rating downgrades are followed by a subsequent downward adjustment in dividends. While rating upgrades follow a period of rising earnings, they do not signal any increase in future earnings and no subsequent dividend adjustments are observed. Overall, our results indicate that rating agencies respond more to permanent changes in cash flows and provide little information, if any, about future cash flows.



Accounting ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 513-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fawzi A. Al Sawalqa

The current study links the information contents of the three main financial statements in a balanced panel data model to empirically examine the effect of cash flows per share and capital structure on shareholder value. The results of the study are based on a sample of 270 firm-year observations from the Jordanian commercial banks and insurance companies that listed on Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) from 2011 to 2019. Based on the Fixed Effect Model (FEM) with Driscoll-Kraay standard errors, the empirical results show that cash flows from operating activities per share had a positive and significant relationship with shareholder value, whereas both the cash flows from investing and financing activities per share had negative but insignificant relationship with shareholders’ value. Results also show that capital structure had a negative but insignificant relationship with shareholder value. Finally, the results indicate that dividend per share had a positive and significant relationship with shareholder value. Accordingly, decision-makers should direct cash to efficient investment projects in order for cash outflows from investing activities to create value to shareholders and to generate positive cash flows from financing activities. Similarly, an appropriate capital structure should be selected to create value for shareholders.



10.3386/w8961 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Campbell ◽  
Glen Taksler
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2017 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 1203-1219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Basile ◽  
Sung Won Kang ◽  
John Landon-Lane ◽  
Hugh Rockoff

We present a new monthly index of the yields on junk bonds (high risk, high yield bonds) for the period 1910–1955. This index supplements the indexes of government bond yields, and Aaa and Baa corporate bond yields economic historians have relied on previously to describe the long-term risk spectrum. First, we describe our sources and methods. Then we show that our junk bond index contains information that is not in the closest alternative, and suggest some ways that the junk bond index could be used to enrich our understanding of the turbulent middle years of the twentieth century.



Author(s):  
Nur Atakul ◽  
Selin Gundes

Starting with the seminal work of Modigliani and Miller in 1958, various capital structure theories have been set forth by corporate finance researchers, such as the trade-off and financial hierarchy theories. The present research uses data from the survey questionnaire conducted with 158 Turkish construction companies to explain the financial decisions of contractors in terms of capital structure theories. Results reveal that firm age, size and asset values appear to be positively correlated to debt-equity ratio and the volatility of earnings and cash-flows are important determinants of leverage, confirming the trade-off theory. On the other hand, the construction sector clearly follows a financial order consistent with the financial hierarchy theory, but other propositions of the theory are not supported. Overall, it is concluded that capital structure decisions of construction firms cannot fully be explained by the existing models. Rather, firms appear to exploit “windows of opportunities” emerging from changes in macro-economic indicators, such as interest rates, GDP and resulting market conditions.



Subject The fallout in Central-eastern Europe (CEE) from Brexit. Significance While CEE government bond markets are being supported by investor expectations of further monetary stimulus in response to the uncertainty stemming from the UK decision to leave the EU ('Brexit'), the zloty is suffering from both its status as one of the most actively traded emerging market (EM) currencies and concerns about the policies of Poland's new nationalist government. A sharp Brexit-induced slowdown in the euro-area economy would put other CEE currencies and equity markets under strain. Impacts The ECB's full-blown QE is helping keep government and corporate bond yields in vulnerable southern European economies historically low. Uncertainty generated by Brexit reduces the scope for further US interest rate hikes later this year, lifting sentiment towards EM assets. The Brexit vote will increase investors' sensitivity to political risks, auguring badly for Poland. Poland has already suffered a downgrade to its credit rating mainly as a result of the interventionist policies of the PiS government.



1967 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-651
Author(s):  
Frank C. Jen ◽  
James E. Wert
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