Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value?

Shourun Guo, Edie S. Hotchkiss and Weihong Song

No 14187, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines whether, and how, leveraged buyouts from the most recent wave of public to private transactions created value. For a sample of 192 buyouts completed between 1990 and 2006, we show that these deals are somewhat more conservatively priced and lower levered than their predecessors from the 1980s. For the subsample of deals with post-buyout data available, median market adjusted returns to pre- and post-buyout capital invested are 78% and 36%, respectively. In contrast, gains in operating performance are either comparable to or slightly exceed those observed for benchmark firms. We examine the relative contribution of several potential determinants of returns; in addition to gains in operating performance, returns are strongly related to increases in industry valuation multiples. Overall, our results provide insights into how transactions from the most recent wave of leveraged buyouts created value.

JEL-codes: G3 G34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-07
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Published as Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value? SHOURUN GUO, EDITH S. HOTCHKISS, WEIHONG SONG* Article first published online: 21 MAR 2011 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01640.x © 2011 the American Finance Association Issue The Journal of Finance The Journal of Finance Volume 66, Issue 2, pages 479–517, April 2011

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