UK interim and final dividend reductions: a note on price reaction

Balasingham Balachandran

The European Journal of Finance, 2003, vol. 9, issue 4, 379-390

Abstract: Price reactions to interim and final dividend reductions are found to be significantly negative and stronger for interim dividend reductions. Although the market reacted negatively around final dividend reduction announcements it bounced back to its prior level within one month of the announcements. The magnitude of price reactions to dividend reductions is found to be statistically related to the size of the dividend reduction, the post-announcement effect from day 2 to day 20, the pre-announcement effect from day -20 to day -2, the gearing ratio and the dummy variable interim versus final dividend reduction.

Keywords: price reactions; UK dividend reductions; interim shock effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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