The Impact of Hedging on Stock Return and Firm Value: New Evidence from Canadian Oil and Gas Companies

Chang Dan, Hong Gu and Kuan Xu ()

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of hedging activities of large Canadian oil and gas companies on their stock returns and firm value. Differing from the existing literature this research finds that some of these relationships are nonlinear based on the framework of nonlinear generalized additive models. The research based on this more general methodology reveals some interesting findings on oil and gas hedging activities. The large Canadian oil and gas firms are able to use hedging to protect downside risk against the unfavorable oil and gas price changes. But oil hedging appears to be more effective in protecting stock returns than gas hedging is when downside risk presents. In addition, oil and gas reserves are more likely to play a positive (negative) role when the oil and gas prices are increasing (decreasing). Finally, hedging, in particular hedging on gas, together with profitability, investment and leverage, has certain impacts on firm value.

Keywords: oil; gas; hedging; return; firm value; general additive models; Canada (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G10 G30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-acc, nep-bec, nep-cfn, nep-fin, nep-fmk and nep-rmg
Date: 2005-08-22
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