Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Board Structure, and Firm Value: Evidence from Taiwan

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Planning ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Stock Ownership ◽  
Board Structure ◽  
Institutional Holdings ◽  
Employee Stock Ownership ◽  
Price Performance ◽  
Personal Financial Planning ◽  
Employee Stock Ownership Plan

The authors explore the effect of an employee stock ownership plan on firm value and examine the following important findings. First, they reveal that a firm with better corporate governance, such as a higher directors’ holding ratio, higher institutional holding ratio, and small board size will have better stock price performance resulting in the enhancement of firm value. Second, firms with higher institutional holdings that are implementing an ESOP actually might not enhance firm value, compared to firms with higher institutional holdings that do not implement an ESOP; this may be the result of interest and influence by institutional investors who are likely to be affected by the ESOP. The authors explain that understanding these results may be useful for investors in personal financial planning and wealth management in terms of screening investing targets.

scholarly journals Employee stock ownership plan and stock price crash risk

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Bao Sun ◽  
Shangyao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Crash Risk ◽  
Stock Ownership ◽  
Investor Confidence ◽  
Employee Stock Ownership ◽  
Future Value ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Abstract This paper examines whether the announcement of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) affects stock price crash risk and the mechanism by which the ESOP may influence crash risk, using a sample of Chinese A-share firms from the period 2014 to 2017. We provide evidence that an ESOP announcement is significantly and negatively related to a firm’s stock price crash risk. An ESOP announcement sends positive signals to the market that insiders are optimistic about a firm’s future value, which helps enhance investor confidence, resist the pressure for a fire sale caused by negative information disclosure, and reduce stock price crash risk. Further research shows that larger-scale, lower-priced and non-leveraged ESOPs are more helpful in reducing crash risk. This paper sheds lights on the impact of ESOPs in a volatile market environment. It also contributes to firms’ implementation of ESOPs and the development of the legal system in capital markets.

scholarly journals EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PROGRAM (ESOP) DAN NILAI PERUSAHAAN DENGAN PROFITABILITAS SEBAGAI VERIABEL INTERVENING

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-124
Author(s):  
Mardiyah Anugraini ◽  
Hidayatul Khusnah
Keyword(s):  
Firm Value ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Least Square Method ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Stock Ownership ◽  
Employee Stock Ownership ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Partial Least Square Method

This study aims to investigate the effect of the employee stock ownership program (ESOP) on profitability and firm value. In addition, this study also aims to see the mediating effect of profitability on the effect of ESOP on firm value. This research was conducted on manufactures listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) during 2015-2019. The data analysis technique in this study used the PLS (Partial Least Square) method. The results of this study indicate that the results of this study indicate that profitability partially mediates the effect of ESOP on firm value. This study also found that ESOP has a positive effect on profitability and firm value. This study also found the same thing for the effect of profitability on firm value.

Restoring Trust after Fraud: Does Corporate Governance Matter?

2005 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 539-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Farber
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Control Sample ◽  
Fraud Detection ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Institutional Holdings ◽  
Price Performance ◽  
Big 4 ◽  
The Board Of Directors

In this study, I examine the association between the credibility of the financial reporting system and the quality of governance mechanisms. I use a sample of 87 firms identified by the SEC as fraudulently manipulating their financial statements. Consistent with prior research, results indicate that fraud firms have poor governance relative to a control sample in the year prior to fraud detection. Specifically, fraud firms have fewer numbers and percentages of outside board members, fewer audit committee meetings, fewer financial experts on the audit committee, a smaller percentage of Big 4 auditing firms, and a higher percentage of CEOs who are also chairmen of the board of directors. However, the results indicate that fraud firms take actions to improve their governance, and three years after fraud detection these firms have governance characteristics similar to the control firms in terms of the numbers and percentages of outside members on the board, but exceed the control firms in the number of audit committee meetings. I also investigate whether the improved governance influences informed capital market participants. The results indicate that analyst following and institutional holdings do not increase in fraud firms, suggesting that credibility was still a problem for these firms. However, the results also indicate that firms that take actions to improve governance have superior stock price performance, even after controlling for earnings performance. This suggests that investors appear to value governance improvements.

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