Organization capital and analyst coverage

Konan Chan, Re-Jin J. Guo, Yanzhi A. Wang and Hsiao-Lin Yang

Journal of Empirical Finance, 2022, vol. 69, issue C, 81-105

Abstract: We hypothesize that analyst coverage reduces firms’ cost of capital and thereby facilitates more investments in organization capital, one of the most important intangible investments. To test our hypothesis, we use the exogenous variation in analyst coverage due to the mergers and closures of brokerages and measures of organization capital based on SG&A expenditures and text-based information manually collected from firms’ 10-K filings. Our results show that firms’ organization capital investments significantly decline with reduced analyst coverage. The post-event decline in organization capital is concentrated in firms with higher costs of capital, greater financial constraints, and greater dependence on external equity. Our findings are in contrast to other studies that have shown how the adverse effect of analyst coverage enhances managerial myopia and reduces corporate R&D.

Keywords: Organization capital; Analyst coverage; Cost of capital; Intangible investments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 G30 G31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2022.08.003

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