Impacts of “Stock Split” on Rate of Stock Return in China A-share Market

DOI

10.2991/ssmi-18.2019.52How to use a DOI?

Keywords

dividend payout, stock split, excess return, A-share public companies.

Abstract

As a decision crucial to every public company, dividend payout policy affects the confidence of investors in a company. At present, “stock split” has been a popular topic regarding the distribution of dividends, and has attracted much attention from investors and researchers whether it is taken as a driver to corporate finance or a way for managers and major shareholders to cash out at high prices. However, it has been often criticized for the frequent “unhealthy” practice, and subjected to the stringent supervision of China Securities Regulatory Commission recently. With reference to the SZSE Component Index, this paper presents an empirical study on the public companies in the sector of “stock split” in 2016. As revealed in the results of this empirical study, the announcement on the “stock split” preplan released by public companies in China A-share market has never exerted any effect on their share prices, but the “stock split” execution announcement can affect their share prices for a short period. However, excess return is positive before the execution announcement is released, but turns negative after it is released. By analyzing the causes for such phenomenon, this paper intends to provide advices for investors in their decisions and for securities regulatory authority in its regulatory practice.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Dongxing Gao
AU  - Zhiyu An
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - Impacts of “Stock Split” on Rate of Stock Return in China A-share Market
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Symposium on Social Science and Management Innovation (SSMI 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 297
SN  - 2352-5428
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