The Economics of PIPEs

Jongha Lim, Michael Schwert and Michael Weisbach

No 23967, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper considers a sample of 3,001 private investments in public equities (PIPEs). Issuing firms tend to be small and poorly performing, so have limited access to traditional sources of finance. To attract capital, they offer shares in a PIPE at a substantial discount to the market price, along with warrants and a collection of other rights. Because of the discount at issuance, PIPE returns decline with the holding period, which itself is a function of registration status and liquidity of the shares issued in the PIPE. Assuming that the PIPE investor sells 10% of volume each day following the issuance, the average PIPE investor holds the stock for 384 days and earns an abnormal return of 21.2%. More risky firms tend to raise capital from relatively risk tolerant investors such as hedge funds and private equity funds. PIPEs issued to more constrained firms have higher holding period adjusted returns but these returns are more volatile. The abnormal holding period adjusted returns earned by PIPE investors appear to be compensation for providing capital to otherwise constrained firms.

JEL-codes: G12 G23 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-10
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Published as Jongha Lim & Michael Schwert & Michael S. Weisbach, 2019. "The Economics of PIPEs," Journal of Financial Intermediation, .

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