Can Stock Markets Predict M&A Failure? A Study of European Transactions in the Fifth Takeover Wave

Katrien Craninckx and Nancy Huyghebaert

European Financial Management, 2011, vol. 17, issue 1, 9-45

Abstract: In this paper we develop various measures of M&A failure for an intra†European sample during the fifth takeover wave: inferior long†term stock performance, inferior operating performance, and target divestment. After documenting the extent of M&A failure, we test the relation between short†term abnormal returns at deal announcement and M&A failure. We examine a sample where listed bidders acquire listed targets (267 deals) as well as privately†held targets (336 deals). Our results indicate M&A failure rates up to 50% in both samples. When acquirers and targets are listed, lower M&A announcement returns are consistently and significantly associated with higher M&A failure probabilities and long†term losses. In contrast, when targets are privately held, we find no evidence of such an association.

Date: 2011
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