Ownership Structure and IPO Valuation

1. Ownership Structureand IPO Valuation Yeh Yin-Hua and Pei-Gi Shu Fu-Jen Catholic University

2. Introduction • How does the ownership structureof an IPO firm affect the price settings and the initial returns? • Managerial monitoring consideration • Brennan and Franks (1997) :the reduced monitoring hypothesisexcess demand for issued shares through underpricing to reduce the likelihood of being monitored by institutional shareholders • Smart and Zutter (2003) find that with voting control secured in the first place, dual-class IPOs experienced less underpricing than single-class IPOs.

3. Introduction • Other than monitoring considerations, the controlling shareholder’s wealth effect is implied in the ownership structure, which in turns affects the IPO price setting. • IPO price setting monitoring consideration diverse-ownership economies • In ownership-concentrated economies, the controlling shareholders’ voting rights are well-entrenched before IPOs. • The wealth effect ownership-concentrated economies

4. Introduction • The ownership structure manifests the controlling shareholders’ motives and stakes in the negotiations and provides convincing signals to the underwriter and outside investors. • Firm’s IPO is a continuously negotiating process: controlling shareholders of issuing firms, associated underwriters, and outside investorsthe IPO price multiples and initial returns.

5. IPOs Controlling Shareholder Underwriters Price Multiple Initial Return Investors

6. Introduction • The interest-alignment hypothesis (La Porta et al., 2002; Claessens et al., 2002) • Controlling shareholder: High cash flow rights  high offering price • Underwriters: accept high offering price • In addition, the C.S. with high cash flow rights does not need to have a low offering price to reduce outside monitoring. • Hypothesis 1: The comparable price multiples of IPO firms are positively correlated with the C. S. cash flow rights.

7. The Negative expropriation hypothesis • The C. S. having voting rights far exceeding their cash-flow rights, the underwriters on behalf of outside investors worry about the possibility of wealth exploitation by the C.S. and are reluctant to spare a higher offer price. • Since these C.S. only have to bear a small portion of underpricing costs, they would not be as insistent as when they have high cash-flow rights. • Hypothesis3: The comparable price multiples of IPO firms are negatively correlated with the divergence between the C.S. degree of cash flow rights and voting rights.

8. Introduction • The initial return • The initial returns are further intervened by outside investors. • A positive relation between cash-flow rights and initial returns and a negative relation between a deviating voting-cash structure and initial returns • Outside investors are inaccessible to the information which might blur the predicted relations

9. Data and Methodology • Our sample consists of 218 Taiwanese IPO firms in 1992-2001 sampling period. • Corporate governance • Ownership: voting rights, cash flow rights, deviation • Second largest shareholder • Board composition: the proportion the directors and supervisors represented by the controlling shareholder

10. Variables • IPO price multiple • We value IPOs using price multiples, such as offering price-to-book, price-to-sales, and price-to-EBITDA 3 yeas average prior to IPO. • These price multiples deflated by the multiples of matching firm. • Initial return • the initial return of an IPO as the difference between the price on the first day that is not closed at the limit and the offer price divided by the offer price.

12. Basic Statistics

13. Regression of Price-to-Book Multiple on Corporate Governance

14. Regression of Price-to-Sales Multiple on Corporate Governance

15. Regression of the Initial Return of IPO on Corporate Governance

16. Conclusion • Ownership structure variables have stronger explanatory power upon the comparable price multiples than upon initial returns of IPO firms. • With high cash flow investment in the issuing firms, the C. S. have a strong motive to ask high comparable price multiples.

17. Conclusion • However, a deviating ownership structure that the C.S. levers control through cross shareholding or pyramidal structure is negative correlated to comparable price multiples. • The negotiation of the offering price is strictly dictated by the controlling shareholder’s wealth effect is implied in the ownership structure of the IPO firm.