Stock Splits: An Institutional Investor Preference

Helen B Mason and Roger M Shelor

The Financial Review, 1998, vol. 33, issue 4, 33-46

Abstract: This study examines the relationship between the level of institutional ownership and the likelihood that firms will enact a stock split. There is evidence of a positive relationship between institutional ownership and subsequent split behavior. A firm size effect emerges from the finding that larger firms have higher percentages of institutional owners. This implies that institutional investors either encourage stock split behavior or invest in firms that exhibit indicators of eminent stock splits, institutions purchasing shares before the split are likely to obtain short-term and long-term earnings increases. Copyright 1998 by MIT Press.

Date: 1998
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