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Negative investment returns in a developing market context

Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/73867 Negative investment returns in a developing market context Ward, Michael ichelp@gibs.co.za Muller, Chris Semnarayan, Pravin UCTD investment-based asset-pricing theory investment CAPM q-factor firm investment Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020. The traditional asset-pricing models dominating extant literature have produced many empirical failures. These models are based on market-side variables, without incorporating the firm side. This research extends the nascent investment-based asset-pricing theory (IBAPT), which relates share return directly to firm characteristics and explains why share returns are lower for firms with a higher rate of investment. IBAPT was conceptualized using United States-developed data and there is debate about the significance of this phenomenon under developing market conditions. Undertaking such analysis in developing market contexts has been rendered problematic by the lack of adequate data and the high costs of assembling an analysis system to model the data. The researcher resolved these problems. This study builds on the IBAPT by drawing evidence from the high-risk, high-volatility and low-turnover South African developing market context, distinctly different from the US. It further extends the concept of firm investment in the IBAPT by examining the impact of previously un-studied investment variables. It found the relationship between firm investment (‘I’) and subsequent share return (‘R’) was related to investment and lag periods, uncovering a significant negative I–R relationship with optimised investment and lag periods in this context. The return premium associated with firm investment style was significantly higher than 100 random investment styles tested on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. It found that the I–R relationship can be associated with abnormal effects in the market (value-versus-growth, size, equity issuance, debt-to-equity and profitability), also dependent on investment and lag periods. This work thus contributes to the development of IBAPT scholarship, and suggests that future studies should attend carefully to investment and lag period variables. At the practitioner level, the work enhances the utility of IBAPT in determining pricing and investment decisions for listed as well as private firms, since the valuation method does not require factors aggregated from the market. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) PhD Unrestricted 2020-03-30T09:05:54Z 2020-03-30T09:05:54Z 2020 2020 Thesis Semnarayan, P 2020, Negative investment returns in a developing market context, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73867> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73867 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
spellingShingle UCTD
investment-based asset-pricing theory
investment CAPM
q-factor
firm investment
Negative investment returns in a developing market context
title Negative investment returns in a developing market context
title_full Negative investment returns in a developing market context
title_fullStr Negative investment returns in a developing market context
title_full_unstemmed Negative investment returns in a developing market context
title_short Negative investment returns in a developing market context
title_sort negative investment returns in a developing market context
topic UCTD
investment-based asset-pricing theory
investment CAPM
q-factor
firm investment
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73867