Corporate Focus and Stock Performance International Evidence from Listed Property Markets

Dick Boer, Dirk Brounen () and Hans Op’t Veld ()

The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2005, vol. 31, issue 3, 263-281

Abstract: Does corporate focus translate into superior stock performance? We use 17 years of international data on 275 property companies from the U.S., British, French, Dutch and Swedish listed property share markets to answer this question. After analyzing corporate structures, we document significant differences in corporate focus strategies both between nations and firms and over time. By linking these focus profiles to risk-adjusted performance measures, we show that companies with high levels of geographical focus perform significantly better than the overall market. With regard to industrial focus, our results are mixed but again imply a positive relationship between corporate focus and stock outperformance. At the same time, our results show that the firm-specific risk of a company increases with higher levels of corporate focus. Hence, our results imply that within the real estate sector a focused strategy mildly increases both a firm’s return and risk. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005

Keywords: corporate focus; stock performance; industrial- and geographical concentration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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