Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the financial impacts of Mergers and
Acquisitions (M&As) in USA banking industry. According to this
approach, this study is concentrated on M&As in banking industry across
the USA to investigate the stock price behavior of targets and acquirers
based on the M&A announcement over the period 2000-2010 in a sample
of 154 deals. This paper has classified the deals in three main categories;
target banks versus acquirer banks, means of payment in M& As (all-cash
offers versus all cash and stock otfers), and domestic versus cross-border
M&As. This classification provides a unique opportunity for analyzing the
stock price behavior in different situations and scenarios. This research
assumes that there are no other special events in the estimation period (-60,
+60) and therefore, has focused on the actual retum rather than abnormal
retum. For the future researches, it's recommended to use the abnormal
retum instead of the actual retum in order to neutralize the movements in
prices that result from factors other than the specific announcement under
investigation. According to the results generated by this research, M&A
announcements generated positive average actual retum over (-60, +60)
for both target and acquirer banks in all of the scenarios. Average actual
retum of acquirers' shareholders in M&A announcements of all-cash
offers are higher than for all cash-stock offers, but Average actual retum of
targets' shareholders in M&A announcements of all-cash offers are lower
than for all cash-stock offers.