Pseudo Market Timing of Premium and Standard Listing IPOs

Abstract

The pseudo market timing of 231 IPOs is examined over a window of April 2010 to September 2012 from a panel of UK Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). IPOs are classified into premium listings and standard listings under the new FSA issuance regime. The study shows contrasting results for both the categories. The premium listing IPOs register an average -12.03% return over 1-24 post calendar months, while the standard listings yield an average 0.04% excess return. The premium listing IPOs indicate underperformance of between -0.43% to -5.89% over one calendar year. Whereas, the standard listing registers marginal excess positive return over the same post calendar month period. The supplementary analysis suggests that underpricing is significant in the premium listing but is not effective in the standard listing offers. Therefore, the results support to some extent that the timing effects are observable and can be explained by the pseudo market hypothesis.