The outperformance of family firms: the role of variance in earnings per share and analyst forecast dispersion on the Swiss market

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 21 - Trang 203-220 - 2007
Thomas Zellweger1, Roger Meister1, Urs Fueglistaller1
1Center for Family Business University of St. Gallen, CFB-HSG, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Tóm tắt

Recent studies provide empirical evidence that family firms are outperforming their non-family counterparts in terms of stock market performance. For the Swiss stock market we find that family firms indeed outperform their non-family counterparts after controlling for firm size and beta. In addition, our data shows that family firms display more stable earnings per share in contrast to their non-family counterparts. Furthermore we find that the variance of earnings per share positively affects analyst forecast dispersion. According to anomaly literature, lower analyst forecast dispersion has been found to induce higher excess return, which our data supports for the Swiss stock market. By linking variance of earnings per share, analyst forecast dispersion and stock performance we provide an insightful explanation for the excess stock market returns of family firms. In addition, our text extends the theory of dispersion effect with an additional empirical element, the variance of earnings per share.

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