Tender Offers and Free Cash Flow: An Empirical Analysis
- 1 May 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Financial Review
- Vol. 27 (2) , 185-209
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6288.1992.tb01313.x
Abstract
High free cash flow firms are characterized by a mismatch between growth opportunities and resources. High free cash flow target firms receive higher‐than‐average abnormal returns. Target returns are lower when the bidder is a high free cash flow firm. During the 1970s, results suggested that cash‐flow‐rich bidding firms pursued low‐benefit takeovers. During the 1980s, high free cash flow firms became the targets of tender offers. Results are consistent with the notion that reducing agency problems in target firms generates benefits and that bidding firms with large free cash flow undertake low‐benefit acquisitions.Keywords
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