Do Leverage, Dividend Payout, and Ownership Concentration Influence Firms' Value Creation? An Analysis of Brazilian Firms

Félix López-Iturriaga () and Vicente Lima Crisóstomo
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Vicente Lima Crisóstomo

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2010, vol. 46, issue 3, 80-94

Abstract: This study uses a sample of 213 Brazilian firms listed between 1995 and 2004 to examine the effect of the presence or absence of growth opportunities on the subsequent effect of leverage, dividend payout, and ownership concentration on firm value. First, we find that leverage plays a dual role: whereas it negatively affects the value of firms with growth opportunities (i.e., underinvestment theory), it positively affects the value of firms without growth opportunities (i.e., overinvestment theory). Second, we find that dividends play a disciplinary role in firms with fewer growth opportunities by reducing free cash flow under managerial control. Finally, the results show that ownership structure has a nonlinear effect—that is, ownership concentration initially improves the value of most firms. However, after a certain threshold, in firms with growth opportunities, the risk increases that large shareholders expropriate wealth at the expense of minority shareholders.

Keywords: agency theory; dividends; growth opportunities; leverage; ownership structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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