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Long-Run Performance and Insider Trading in Completed and Canceled Seasoned Equity Offerings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Jonathan Clarke ,
Craig Dunbar  and
Kathleen M. Kahle
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Abstract

This paper provides evidence on managerial motives for raising equity by examining long-run performance and insider trading around canceled and completed seasoned equity offerings (SEOs). Insider selling increases prior to competed and canceled SEOs, but declines afferward only for canceled offerings. For completed SEOs, pre-filing insider trading is related to long-run performance after completion. For Canceled sEOs, pre-filing insider trading is related to stock performance between filing and cancellation. Finally, changes in dence is consistent with insiders exploiting windows of opportunity by attempting to issue overvalued equity and by canceling the issue when the market reaction to the announcement eliminates the overvaluation.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , December 2001 , pp. 415 - 430
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 2001

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