The Impacts of Sales of Shares Kept Ready for Sales Through Capital Increase in Going Public on Equity Returns

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impacts of sales of shares kept ready for sale through capital increase after the initial public offering on equity returns. The scope of the study consists of BIST companies that selling shares kept ready for sale between 2013 and 2020. In the study, in which the event study method was used, the sales date of the shares kept ready for sale was determined as the event day. As the event window, 5 days before and after the event day (-/+5) were examined. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) was used to calculate the expected returns of the equities. As a result, it was determined that the sale of shares kept ready for sale through capital increase positively affected the equity returns, but following this application, it would not be possible for investors to o obtain short term positive abnormal returns. In addition, it was found that BIST equity market is not efficient in the semi-strong form in terms of the period and companies tested.btain large amounts of long term positive returns, but it would be possible to obtain short term positive abnormal returns. In addition, it was found that BIST equity market is not efficient in the semi-strong form in terms of the period and companies tested.

Keywords

• public offering
• shares kept ready for sales
• event study
• borsa istanbul