Results where ownership concentration is closest to expectation
| Abnormal ownership concentration and IFRS earnings | Abnormal ownership concentration and headline earnings | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | All firms | Positive earnings | Negative earnings | All firms | Positive earnings | Negative earnings |
| BPS | 0.649*** | 0.589*** | 0.663*** | 0.408* | 0.341 | 0.284 |
| (0.001) | (0.003) | (0.003) | (0.069) | (0.115) | (0.208) | |
| EPS | 4.074*** | 4.612*** | 3.107 | |||
| (<0.001) | (<0.001) | (0.350) | ||||
| HEPS | 6.248*** | 6.780*** | 8.422*** | |||
| (<0.001) | (<0.001) | (0.004) | ||||
| APS | 0.690 | 0.942 | −0.653 | |||
| (0.564) | (0.444) | (0.751) | ||||
| NEG | 6.087*** | 4.488* | ||||
| (0.005) | (0.081) | |||||
| OWN_AB | 0.671 | 0.678 | −2.778 | −0.765 | −1.356 | −4.873* |
| (0.743) | (0.804) | (0.116) | (0.590) | (0.330) | (0.060) | |
| OWN_AB*BPS | −0.223** | −0.181** | 0.246 | −0.261*** | −0.266*** | 0.685** |
| (0.046) | (0.039) | (0.627) | (<0.001) | (0.005) | (0.025) | |
| OWN_AB*EPS | 1.618* | 1.353* | −1.092 | |||
| (0.052) | (0.064) | (0.755) | ||||
| OWN_AB*HEPS | 2.612*** | 2.725** | −9.931*** | |||
| (0.005) | (0.032) | (0.008) | ||||
| OWN_AB*APS | 0.203 | −0.128 | 1.594 | |||
| (0.790) | (0.900) | (0.687) | ||||
| Fixed effects: | ||||||
| - Firm | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| - Year | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| N | 2026 | 1727 | 299 | 2026 | 1727 | 299 |
| Within R2 | 25.8% | 25.3% | 14.0% | 32.5% | 31.7% | 59.1% |
| Abnormal ownership concentration and IFRS earnings | Abnormal ownership concentration and headline earnings | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | All firms | Positive earnings | Negative earnings | All firms | Positive earnings | Negative earnings |
| BPS | 0.649*** | 0.589*** | 0.663*** | 0.408* | 0.341 | 0.284 |
| (0.001) | (0.003) | (0.003) | (0.069) | (0.115) | (0.208) | |
| EPS | 4.074*** | 4.612*** | 3.107 | |||
| (<0.001) | (<0.001) | (0.350) | ||||
| HEPS | 6.248*** | 6.780*** | 8.422*** | |||
| (<0.001) | (<0.001) | (0.004) | ||||
| APS | 0.690 | 0.942 | −0.653 | |||
| (0.564) | (0.444) | (0.751) | ||||
| NEG | 6.087*** | 4.488* | ||||
| (0.005) | (0.081) | |||||
| OWN_AB | 0.671 | 0.678 | −2.778 | −0.765 | −1.356 | −4.873* |
| (0.743) | (0.804) | (0.116) | (0.590) | (0.330) | (0.060) | |
| OWN_AB*BPS | −0.223** | −0.181** | 0.246 | −0.261*** | −0.266*** | 0.685** |
| (0.046) | (0.039) | (0.627) | (<0.001) | (0.005) | (0.025) | |
| OWN_AB*EPS | 1.618* | 1.353* | −1.092 | |||
| (0.052) | (0.064) | (0.755) | ||||
| OWN_AB*HEPS | 2.612*** | 2.725** | −9.931*** | |||
| (0.005) | (0.032) | (0.008) | ||||
| OWN_AB*APS | 0.203 | −0.128 | 1.594 | |||
| (0.790) | (0.900) | (0.687) | ||||
| Fixed effects: | ||||||
| - Firm | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| - Year | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2026 | 1727 | 299 | 2026 | 1727 | 299 | |
| Within | 25.8% | 25.3% | 14.0% | 32.5% | 31.7% | 59.1% |
Note(s): Ownership concentration for this table was sorted into quintiles based on abnormal strategic shareholding and OWN_AB equals 1 when abnormal ownership falls into the middle quintile and zero otherwise. The dependent variable for all regression models is p. Variables are defined in the Appendix. The impact of abnormal ownership concentration is determined with reference to the full sample. For multivariate regression results, two-tailed p-values based on robust standard errors clustered by firm and year (Petersen, 2009; Cameron et al., 2011) are reported in brackets, with a correction where the covariance matrix is not positive semi-definite. ***, ** and * denote significance at the 1%, 5% and 10% levels respectively
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