Implications of Internal Funds Surplus for Determining Agency Spending of SEO Proceeds and Timing Incentives

Ebrahim Bazrafshan

Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments, 2023, vol. 32, issue 4, 133-169

Abstract: According to the pecking order theory, firms with potential investment projects should raise external capital if and only if sufficient internal funds are not available. The theory can be violated if equity issuers are motivated by market timing and increasing funds for insiders’ benefits, indicating that firms may already have internal funds surplus without including external funds, but still issue equity. By controlling for future funds needs, the analyses show that issuers that engage in market timing and spend the SEO proceeds on value‐destroying projects are strongly associated with their internal funds surplus. Moreover, SEO announcement returns are lower for issuers with internal funds surplus. This pattern strongly supports the predictive ability of internal funds surplus to detect the need for external capital and ultimately to determine timing incentives and agency spending of SEO proceeds.

Date: 2023
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