Market segmentation theory versus issues of American Depositary Receipts. Results of empirical research of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Aaronson

Serono International SA is one of the world's largest biotechnology companies with sales in 2004 of almost US$2.5bn made in over 90 countries. The company presently has eight biotechnology products and operates in four market areas: neurology, reproductive health, growth and metabolism, and dermatology. Serono's shares are traded on the Swiss Exchange as well as the virt-x exchange and its American depositary receipts (ADRs) are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Its results were released on 1st February, 2005. The company has its headquarters in Geneva.


2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
Fabio Gallo Garcia ◽  
Elmo Tambosi Filho ◽  
Luiz Maurício Franco Moreira

There is a strong tendency in global markets towards an enhanced level of corporate transparency regarding the activities of companies and, as a result, information on their performance. The Purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between greater disclosure levels and shareholder value creation. Increasing levels of disclosure are required from companies‟ management before shareholders and the society in general. Obscure practices that fail to take into consideration the best interests of shareholders increase risks and cause shares to lose liquidity. The São Paulo Stock Exchange‟s “Novo Mercado” (“New Market”) emerged from the intent to improve the Brazilian stock market by adopting best practices in corporate governance, adding transparency to disclosed information, and heightening the respect for the interests of shareholders, whether they may be minority or not. The “Novo Mercado” intends to foster a differentiated environment in which companies committed to corporate governance are recognized and can benefit from better stock prices, resulting in lower placement costs and increased liquidity. Our research will assume that companies with American Depositary Receipts - ADRs are committed to a higher level of disclosure as a result of the requirements of the Security Exchange Commission – SEC, and the Financial Accounting Standards Board - FASB; an empiric study about these firms will be performed. We will determine, through a Study Event concerned with cases where ADR have been issued, which consequences of the commitment to higher levels of disclosure as regards shareholder are responsible for value creation, and what are the reflections on the stock price quoted in the Brazilian market.


2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1445
Author(s):  
Kam C. Chan ◽  
Annie Wong

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-hyphenate: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This study examines the change in stock returns and trading volume of American Depositary Receipts when foreign firms switched their listings from a major U.S. stock exchange to a more prestigious U.S. stock exchange; namely from the NASDAQ or American Stock Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange or from the American Stock Exchange to the NASDAQ since year 2000. We find that the stock returns of these American Depositary Receipts changed from better-than-market performance before the listing changes to just market performance after the listing changes. This evidence is consistent with a timing behavior of the management. We also find significant increase in their trading volume after the listing changes. This leads us to conclude that switching to a more prestigious stock exchange was able to create more investor interest.<strong></strong></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-478
Author(s):  
Sylwia Bąk

Risk management currently determines the probability of survival and development of enterpris­es. The main aim of this article is to attempt to map the risk profile of Polish companies in the me­dia sector listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) based on the categorization of risk fac­tors identified by them. Empirical research was carried out on a sample of 15 companies listed on this Stock Exchange. The goal of empirical research was achieved through triangulation of re­search methods and techniques. The main method used in the research procedure was content anal­ysis of source documents of the examined group of enterprises, mainly: annual reports (financial statements, management board reports), capital adequacy reports and other information published mandatory by WSE listed entities. The logical classification method and the comparative method in the closed comparison variant were also used. The main research findings indicate that the risk pro­file of the enterprises studied shows characteristics specific to the media sector that they represent.


ABCustos ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Rosane Leal de Souza ◽  
Ernani Ott ◽  
Clóvis Antônio Kronbauer

O crescente interesse em âmbito mundial e a conscientização de que as organizações e os organismos governamentais devem desempenhar um papel importante na luta por um desenvolvimento sustentável, têm levado à edição de várias normas e recomendações de disclosure ambiental. Alguns organismos internacionais ligados a área contábil como o Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR/UNCTAD) têm dedicado atenção às informações contábeis relativas à sustentabilidade ambiental. Da mesma forma, nos Estados Unidos da América e no Brasil, alguns organismos têm emitido normas relacionadas ao registro contábil e à publicação de informes ambientais nos relatórios anuais das companhias. Nesse contexto, este estudo, de caráter exploratório-descritivo, avalia o nível de aderência às normas e recomendações de organismos internacionais e nacionais relativos ao disclosure ambiental, de uma amostra de 10 (dez) companhias do setor químico e petroquímico emitentes de American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), que negociam ações na New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) e que desempenham atividades no Brasil. Para atingir o objetivo proposto, fez-se uma pesquisa nos relatórios publicados pelas companhias e se procedeu a uma análise qualitativa destes relatórios. Os resultados do estudo indicam que a aderência às recomendações internacionais não atinge a 50%, em média; se situa em torno de 70%, em média, em relação às normativas norte-americanas; e há uma baixa aderência às recomendações emanadas dos organismos brasileiros, apenas 18%.


Author(s):  
Jacek Welc

Empirical research shows that corporate financial results (measured by sales growth, profitability, earnings growth, leverage, etc.) are characterized by the long-term reversion toward the levels average for the whole economy. In the case of sales growth this means that companies which in a given year show above-average growth in the following periods express the tendency to show slower pace of this growth and companies which in a given year show below-average growth in the following periods express the tendency to show faster pace of growth. In the paper we explore the reversion toward the mean of the sales growth of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the period of 2001-2009. The research confirmed the strong tendency of sales growth to revert toward the mean.


2020 ◽  
Vol 109 (165) ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Szulc ◽  
Paweł Zieniuk

Purpose: The aim of this article is to present a practical study of disclosures of events after the reporting period in the financial reports of listed companies from selected European countries. The paper presents the results of empirical research based on the source material in the form of financial statements for the year 2018 of listed companies included on the following stock exchange indices: DAX, PSI-20, OMX25, BUX, WIG20, which comprise companies listed on the stock exchanges in Germany, Portugal, Denmark, Hungary and Poland. Methodology/approach: The research sample includes 110 companies. Content analysis of full versions of individual financial statements was performed. Findings: The results show that listed companies comply with the International Financial Reporting Standards regarding the disclo-sure of events after the reporting period. The occurrence of such events in the business practice of com-panies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange is much more frequent than in other European countries. The results of the study also present the diversity of events disclosed by respective companies included in the sample after the reporting period. Originality/value: The research allowed us to compare the scope of financial reporting disclosures of events after the reporting period in companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and in other European companies. Comparisons of this kind have not yet been carried out in international empirical research, which makes this article all the more valuable.


2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-290
Author(s):  
Claudio Akira Kawamoto ◽  
Carlos Tadao Kawamoto

Este trabalho examina a formação dos preços de papéis brasileiros negociados na New York Stock Exchange [NYSE] através de American Depositary Receipts [ADRs]. Verificou-se se os preços dos pares ação-ADR possuem tendência comum de longo prazo, isto é, se suas séries cointegram e, além disso, quantificou-se a contribuição de cada ativo (ADR e ação) na formação do preço de longo prazo através da razão de ajustamento proposta por Eun e Sabherwal (2003). Complementando o trabalho de Sanvicente (1998), que analisou a integração entre os índices Ibovespa e Dow Jones, este trabalho examina a hipótese de integração, utilizando dados desagregados, com uma amostra de 32 papéis, que perfaziam conjuntamente mais de 67% do volume da bolsa brasileira, e seus respectivos ADRs, no período de fevereiro de 1999 a junho de 2006. Os resultados apontam que em apenas 15 pares há uma tendência de longo prazo comum entre a ação e sua ADR; em apenas 2 pares os parâmetros do modelo de correção de erros (VECM) são estatisticamente significantes, indicando que para somente 6,25% da amostra os ajustes necessários para a manutenção de um equilíbrio de longo prazo ocorrem em ambos os mercados.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Sajnóg

The main subject of theoretical-empirical study presented in this paper is economic efficiency of companies listed on the Polish and German capital market. The discussed research problem was investigated in the form of a comparative analysis and realized in two parts. The discussion presented in the first part depicts mainly theoretical reflections on the essence and assessment measures of companies’ economic efficiency. The second part presents the results of a comparative empirical research on economic efficiency of the companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and included in the WIG30 index as well as the companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, which belong to the DAX index. The research period comprises years between 2004-2013. A comparative analysis of economic efficiency of the companies was conducted using a traditional ratio analysis and the nonparametric DEA method. The results of the empirical research confirm that German companies achieved significantly higher values of basic economic categories in the analysed decade, financial results in particular; however, their generated profits did not reflect in higher values of profitability ratios. Polish companies performed much better as they also showed higher efficiency from  the DEA’s point of view.


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