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Announcement Effect of Open Market Share Buybacks in India: Part-I*
Dr S Narayan Rao
Associate Professor of Finance
S J M School of Management
IIT Bombay
Powai,, MUMBAI-400076, Maharashtra (India)
e-mail: [email protected]; Ph:+91-22-25768744
On sabbatical leave at
T A Pai Management Institute
MANIPAL-576104, Karnataka (India)
e-mail: [email protected] ; Ph: +91-820-2701039
About the authorProf S N Rao is Associate Professor of Finance at Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay. He has
been a core faculty member at UTI Institute of Capital Markets (now Indian Institute of Capital Markets), Navi
Mumbai, The Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst of India (ICFAI), Hyderabad; PSG Institute of Management,
Coimbatore; Institute of Technology and Management, Mumbai and has also been the coordinator of ICFAI Business
School, Hyderabad. His publications appeared in Journal of Financial Decisions, Eurasian Review of Economics and
Finance, Vikalpa, Decision, Finance India, ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance and other leading professional journals.
He conducted and taught in many MDPs in the area of Finance. He presented research papers in professional
international conferences held in Canada, USA, Germany, Switzerland, Malaysia, Australia and Japan. His areas of
interest include Mergers and Acquisition, Financial Engineering, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management,
Corporate Finance, and Capital Markets. He is member of International WHOS WHO Historical Society; Marquis
WHOs WHO; and Midwest Finance Association.
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Announcement Effect of Open Market Share Buybacks in India: Part-I
ABSTRACTInformation related to share buybacks is released in two stages in India. In the first
stage information about the approval of buyback is released to stock exchanges (in
some cases through print media).In the second stage detailed information about the
buybacks is released through print media. In most of the cases, there is sizable gap
between the two stages. This part of the study examines the effects of
announcement of approval of open market buyback in India. The sample consists of
64 open market share buybacks approved during 2003-2010 (till June). The
evidence suggests that significant sustainable increases in firm values occur around
the announcement of buyback approval. The results support information signaling
hypothesisof share buyback.
JEL classification: G35
Keywords: Announcement effect; share buyback, information signaling
1. INTRODUCTIONFirms in the USA began share buybacks in early 60s. Between 2003 and 2007, the
amount of cash spent by S&P 500 companies on buyback nearly quadrupled, from
$135 billion to $590 billion. According to the review article of Hsieh and Wang
(2009) share repurchases have surpassed cash dividends and become the dominant
form of corporate payouts since the last decade. The increased interest shown by the
repurchase program in the USA spread to Canada in the 1980s. Share repurchase
in Europe also started in the 1980s. In Asian countries buybacks were permitted in
Japan in 1995 followed by Malaysia in 1997, Singapore, Hong Kong and India in
1998, and Taiwan in 2000.
Share buyback was allowed in India through an amendment to Companies Act,
1956. There were various factors which prompted the Indian government to
consider introducing the share buybacks. One of the factors was prolonged
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depression in the stock market during 1996.Business houses and trade associations
had made a strong case for share buyback as possible solution for reviving the stock
market, because share buyback price is often higher than the prevailing market
price.
More than 300 buybacks are implemented during 1999-2009 and around $1.5 billion
is spent on the buybacks.
Objective of this study is to understand the reaction of investors to open market
buybacks through stock exchanges, by analyzing abnormal returns around the
announcement of buybacks. In India companies release the information related to
buyback in two to three stages. In the first stage information about the approval of
buyback by board/shareholders is released to stock exchanges, in the second stage
public notice (PN) about the approval is released, through print media, giving
important details of buyback (except time table of buyback) and in the third stage
public announcement (PA) containing all the details of the buyback, as prescribed in
regulations, is released through print media. In some cases, after the release of
information about the approval directly public announcement is released. As per the
regulations, companies have a period of 12 months from the date of approval of
buyback to complete the buyback process. Thus, in most of the buybacks there is
gap (in some cases long gap) between the announcement of approval of buyback and
public announcement of buyback. This study analyses the announcement effect of
approval of open market share buybacks.
The next section covers regulatory frame work for buyback in India. Section-3
summarizes the reasons for buyback; literature review is given in section-4.
Hypothesis is stated under section-5; methodology is explained in section-6. Section-
7 provides details on data and sample. Results are discussed in section-8 and
section-9 presents conclusions. Scope for future work is given in section-10.
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2. BUYBACK REGULATIONS IN INDIASecurities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) announced regulatory framework
for share buybacks in November 1998. As per the regulations a company may buy-
back its shares or other specified securities by any one of the following methods:
(a) Tender offer
(b) From open market through
(i) Stock exchanges
(ii)Book-building process
(c) From odd-lot holders.
However, open market through stock exchanges mode has emerged as the most
preferred alternative. This mode offers the companies flexibility in timing and
pricing of buybacks. All of the buybacks in recent times have been through open
market.
Other regulations are:
The buyback should be authorized by the Articles of Association of the
company.
The buyback should be approved with special resolution
The sources of funds should be from the free reserves, securities premium
account, or the proceeds of any stocks or other specified securities, other than
the types of securities bought back, but should not be from borrowing for thespecific purpose.
Only fully paid up shares are eligible for buyback.
Promoters are not allowed to participate in open market buyback
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Amount used for the buyback should not exceed 10% of the total paid-up
capital and free reserves of the company
Buyback should not be more than 25% of the paid up capital. In other words
buyback should not be more than 25% of outstanding shares.
Post-buyback debt-equity ratio should not exceed 2:1
The buyback has to be completed within 12 months from the date of passing
of the special resolution.
The shares have to be extinguished and physically destroyed within 7 days
after the closure of buyback.
Buyback cannot be affected where there is default by the company in
repayment of public deposit or interest, redemption of debentures or
preference stocks, payment of dividend, or payment of loan or interest to
financial institutions or banks.
3. REASONS FOR SHARE BUYBACKThere are number of possible reasons for share buybacks. These reasons can be
classified in the following way:
a) Information signaling: Management of company should understand the value
of their stock better than anyone outside the company. A buyback will
represent the managements signal that the stock is undervalued.
b) Leverage:A buyback will often increase financial leverage, thus , companies
with additional debt capacity may buyback shares in order to move toward a
more desirable capital structure
c) Takeover defense: A buyback may be used as a defensive tactic in a hostiletakeover by increasing the leverage of the company, reducing the liquidity
and number of shares available to the hostile raider. A buyback also increase
relative shareholding of promoters.
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d) Wealth transfer: A buyback that is undertaken when shares are undervalued
transfers wealth to non-participating from participating shareholders. A
buyback may also result in a wealth transfer from bondholders or creditors to
the non-participating shareholders because the increased debt used to
finance the buyback reduces the assets of the company and therefore the
value of the claims of creditors. Another aspect of wealth transfer through
buyback is from government to participating and non-participating
shareholders as buyback reduces tax impact compared to the distribution of
cash in the form of dividends.
e) Free cash flow: It is argued that management having access to free cash flow
tend to invest in businesses which destroy the wealth of shareholders. In
such situations, buyback is an efficient means of returning cash to
shareholders who can make better use of the cash than the company.
f) Earnings per share: Price-earnings ratio is a popular tool used for stock
market valuation of firms. A buyback improves earnings per share and in
turn the valuation of the firm. It also stabilizes earning per share in the
event of declining net profit.
g) Temporary Cash Flows: When a firm receives temporary cash flows and it
does not have profitable investment opportunities it has two alternatives to
distribute the cash to shareholders. If it chooses to distribute the temporary
cash flow through higher dividend, the cash distribution gets
institutionalized. The shareholders expectations about future dividends will
rise. Since the similar cash flows are not expected in future, firms prefer to
distribute the temporary cash flow through buyback.
These are the major reasons for share buybacks. However, it is not an exhaustivelist. Other possible reasons include savings in administrative overheads by
eliminating fractional shares and odd-lot holdings, and improving the value of stock
options held by management.
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A number of studies in the USA have endeavored to evaluate these possible reasons
for share buyback.
Objective of this study is to analyze the announcement effect of open market share
buybacks through stock exchanges in India. We hypothesize that investors perceive
buybacks as information signaling device. In other words, companies undertake
buybacks for the purpose of information signaling.
4. LITERATURE REVIEWSince focus of this study is information signaling aspects of buyback, literature
review is confined to the studies related to buyback as information signaling.
Among all the studies conducted in the USA to provide explanation for share
buyback, information signaling has the strongest empirical support. When a
company buyback its shares, management gives an information signal to
shareholders. However, the signal may be ambiguous. On one hand, it may be that
the company has no profitable use for its funds and therefore undertakes a buyback
as a means of returning these funds to shareholder. On the other hand,management may believe that the company is undervalued and a buyback, which is
undertaken at a significant premium above the current market price, is a means by
which management passes this information on to shareholders. Thus, to validate
buyback as information signaling, one should analyze the post buyback operating
performance.
Signaling aspect of buyback can be tested empirically. In particular, the share
prices of buyback companies can be examined in order to determine whether or not
any premium that is offered to shareholders by the company to buyback shares is
permanent. In other words, that the share price permanently increases following
the buyback announcement.
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One of the most influential studies of buybacks in the USA was undertaken by
Vermaelen(1981). He examined 131 tender-offer buybacks and 243 open-market
buybacks. The average premium offered to shareholders as part of the tender offer
buyback was 23 per cent. The study attributes the positive share market reaction to
an information signaling effect whereby management undertakes a buyback to
convince investors that the shares of the company are undervalued. The study
further found that the magnitude of the premium offered to shareholders was
positively related to the percentage of outstanding shares repurchased and the
fraction of companys shares owned by managers. This evidence is consistent with
the signaling explanation. Vermaelen also found that the confidence of managers in
the future prospects of their companies was accompanied by subsequent abnormal
earnings performance. Vermaelen argued that open-market buybacks provide less
powerful signals than tender-offer buybacks. He found that tender-offer buybacks
resulted, on average, in permanent gains to shareholders of 13 per cent. In contrast,
open-market buybacks resulted in permanent gains to shareholders of only 2
percent.
Comment and Jarrell examined 97 fixed-price tender-offer buybacks and 72 Dutch-
auction (open-market) buybacks over the period 1984-1989. They found that, onaverage, Dutch-auctions resulted in an average positive return to shareholders of
7.7 percent, compared with 11.9 per cent for fixed-price buybacks. Authors also
believe that the Dutch-auctions are less informatve than fixed-price buybacks as
signals of undervaluation.
Other reasons why management may signal its expectations with buy-backs (andalso with dividends) are given by Asquith and Mullins (1986). They argue that
announcements of both dividends and share buybacks are effective signals because
they are backed by hard, cold cash.
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The information signaling explanation for buybacks also receives support from the
study of Wansley, Lane and Sarkar (1989). They conducted survey of 140 chief
financial officers of USA companies which undertook share buybacks. The
questionnaire asked the respondents to comment upon a number of possible
explanations for why their companies had undertaken share buybacks. The only
explanation for which there was significant agreement among respondents was that
the buyback was undertaken to convey managements opinion of the companys
present and future value.
A number of other studies have found support for the signaling explanation. In his
study, Dann(1981) found that share buybacks (tender offers) led shareholders
experiencing positive share returns of approximately 15 percent and that these
positive returns were mostly permanent in that share prices did not return to their
pre-buyback levels. He concludes with the observation the results are consistent
with the hypothesis that repurchase tender-offer announcements constitute a
revelation by management of favorable new information about the value of the
companys future prospects
Hertzel and Jain found that upon a buyback announcement, financial analysts
revise their estimates of earnings forecasts for the company, further evidence
supporting signaling explanation.
Another issue related to signaling aspect of buyback is differential strength of
signals released by buyback of small companies compared to buyback of large
companies. In one of his studies, Vermaelen (1984), observed that small companies
signal more information with buybacks than do large companies when they
undertake buybacks. A subsequent study by Lakonishok and Vermaelen (1990) hasalso documented that the smaller the company undertaking the buyback, the larger
the returns received by shareholders-a result consistent with the theory that small
companies signal more information than large companies when they undertake
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buybacks. Another study by Pugh and Jahera (1990) also arrives at similar
conclusion.
Studies on Canadian buybacks also report significant positive abnormal returns
around the announcement of buybacks(Schmidt, 2006). Lasfer (2002) and Rau and
Vermaelen(2002) report positive abnormal returns for buyback announcements in
the UK. Chen et al. (2004) analyze announcement effect of buybacks in Taiwan and
find significant positive announcement returns. Hatakeda and Isagawa (2004)
analyzed announcement effect for Japanese buybacks and found significant
abnormal returns surrounding the announcements. Balachandran and Faff (2004)
and Lamba and Ramsay (2005) analyzed Australian buybacks. Both the studies
document positive abnormal returns on the announcement day.
Few empirical studies were conducted in India. Studies of Mohanty (2002); Kaur
and Singh (2003); Gupta (2006); and Hyderabad (2009) reported positive abnormal
returns around the announcement of buyback. Mishra (2005) used exhaustive list of
financial parameters and performance measures to perform trend analysis of
buyback firms.
The studies carried out so far in India suffer from one or the other limitations.Sample size of some studies is as small as 12, methodology used for estimating
expected returns was either capital asset pricing model (CAPM) or market model,
closing price is used for computing expected returns, only public announcement of
buyback was considered as an event, sample was consisting of tender offer buybacks
and open market buybacks.
This study improves upon the above limitations. Details of the improvement are
explained under data and sample and methodology sections.
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5. HYPOTHESISWhen a company purchases its stock, management gives an information signal to
investors. The direction of this signal is ambiguous. It may be that the company
perceives no profitable use for internally generated funds because of lack of growth
opportunities. In such cases the information signal is negative. On the other hand,
especially when a company offers to buy its shares at a substantial premium above
the market price, management may believe that their company is undervalued. The
buyback then represents an attempt to pass on the value of this inside information
to the current shareholders. In such cases the information signal is positive.
If the buybacks are perceived as positive signals, stock should experience positive
abnormal returns around the announcement of buybacks. If buybacks are perceived
as negative signals, stock should experience negative abnormal returns around the
announcement of buybacks.
This leads to my hypothesis:
H0: Average abnormal returns around the announcement of approval of buybacks
are not significantly different from zero.
6. METHODOLOGY6.1 Computation of abnormal returns
The basic methodology used in this study involves computing the daily abnormal
returns for the buyback firms, around the event date. The event date is the date on
which buyback is approved. The approval dates are obtained from the contents of
public announcement of the buyback. Event day is indicated as 0 and event period
is identified as 21 days, 10 days before the event to 10 days after the event.
Raw returns for the sample buyback firms during event period are computed as
following:
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(1)
where raw return on stock ion day t, is price of stock i on day tand
P is price of stock i on day (t-1).
A time series of daily stock raw returns are computed for 21 trading days centered
around the announcement date. Unlike of other studies, daily raw returns are
computed using daily closing prices (CP) as well as daily weighted average prices
(WAP). Returns based on WAP are more representative than the same based on CP.
All stock price data is collected from the BSE website.
For computing daily abnormal returns we need daily expected returns. Different
methods are available for computing expected returns. In previous studies in India
either capital asset pricing model (CAPM) or market model are used. In these
models expected returns are computed based on premium for systematic risk only.
For these models to be appropriate, there should significant correlation between
returns on the individual stock and returns on market index (proxy for market
portfolio). In other words, market returns should be able to explain significant
proportion of risk of stock returns. According to the information available on the
website of the BSE, out of 30 BSE Sensex stocks (index of 30 most liquid stocks
listed on the BSE) only 9 have co-efficient of determination (R2) of more than 0.50.
I computed coefficient of determination (R2 ) for the sample companies using daily
returns on the stock and returns on narrow and broad based market indices (S&P
CNX 50 index and S&P CNX 500 index) during one year period ending one month
prior to the public announcement of buyback. The results are presented in
Appendix-1.For only 3 (4 in the case of broad based index) out of 64 sample
companies coefficient of determination is more than 0.50. Thus, for Indian stocks in
general and for the sample stocks in particular, returns are not significantly
explained by market returns. Component of systematic risk is not significantly
high.
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Therefore, in this study two alternative methods are used to compute expected
returns. In case-1 daily returns on market portfolio is assumed as expected returns
on the stock and in case-2 daily average returns on the stock during one year period
ending one month prior to the approval of the buyback is considered as fair estimate
of expected returns on the stock. The S&P CNX 500 index is used as proxy for
market portfolio, and the values of the index are collected from the NSE website.
Index returns are also computed based on daily closing price as well as daily
average price (average of days high and low prices, as daily weighted average is not
available for the index).Thus,
(2)
where, ARit is abnormal return on stock ifor day t, is raw return on stock ifor
day t, and is expected return on stock i for day t. Expected returns on stock
is estimated under two cases as given below:
Case-1: return on the S&P CNX 500 index for day t is considered as the expected
return for the stock, and
Case-2: average daily logarithmic return on the stock during one year period
ending one month prior to the approval of buyback is considered as the expected
return.
The daily average abnormal return (AAR) for the sample is computed as:
(3)
where nis the number of firms in the sample. This cross-sectional mean abnormal
return can be interpreted as the return on an equally-weighted portfolio of thesample companies.
A desirable feature of using a cross-sectional mean abnormal return relative to a
common event is that averaging across many observations mitigates the influence of
other firm specific or market-wide effects that are unrelated to the share buyback
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announcement. However, relying exclusively on a cross-sectional mean or portfolio
return can obscure important price impacts if the predicted impacts are of opposite
sign for a subset of the sample observations. Since this possibility is suggested by
the information disclosure hypothesis, the number of positive and negative
abnormal returns for each day are also reported. Observing the proportion of
positive abnormal returns in conjunction with the mean abnormal return provides
additional evidence regarding the uniformity of price impacts across the sample.
Cumulative average abnormal return (CAAR) is computed as:
(4)
where, -d and + d represent the event period which is -10 to +10 days. Observationof CAARs over the event period will tell us whether the effect of the announcement
is temporary are sustainable.
6.2 Significance test
To test whether daily average abnormal returns are statistically different from 0,
t-statistic is computed as:
(5)
where, is standard deviation of abnormal returns of sample firms on day t.
7. DATA AND SAMPLESources of data for this study are websites of the SEBI (www.sebi.gov.in), the
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE, www.bseindia.com), the National Stock Exchange
(NSE, www.nseindia.com). Documents related to buybacks (public notice, public
announcement, corrigendum/addendum to public announcement, post-buy back
announcement) are collected from the website of the SEBI. These documents are
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available on the website for the buybacks approved in 2003 onwards. Thus the
study period is 2003-2010 (till June). At least one of the documents is available for
79 open market buybacks through stock exchanges) approved during the period.
According to the information available on the website of the BSE, there were 130
open market buybacks during 2001-2009 (based on the opening date of buybacks).
But the documents related to all these buybacks are not available on the SEBI
website and the BSE information does not have details of approval date.
Unlike other studies on buybacks in India, sample of this study consists of only
open market buybacks through stock exchanges. As reported in literature review,
information signaling strength varies based on the type of buyback. In tender offer
buybacks management announces the specific number of shares it wants to
repurchase, the specific offer period (which has to be between 15-30 days), and the
single price the company will pay for all the shares bought back. In contrast, in
open market buybacks through stock exchanges management announces the
maximum buyback price, maximum amount allocated for buyback program,
minimum number of shares to be bought back (assuming that all the shares are
bought at maximum price and amount allocated for buyback is used fully), offer
period (it is relatively longer, but has to be less than one year from the date ofapproval of buyback). Average price paid for buyback is generally lower than the
maximum price indicated in the announcement. Actual amount used for buyback is
generally less than the maximum amount allocated for buyback. The board has the
right to terminate buyback before the announced closing date. In tender offer
buybacks tendering shareholders surrender shares directly to company, whereas, in
open market buybacks the purchases are executed through brokers at the
prevailing market price. In open market buybacks, company gets flexibility in theimplementation of buyback in terms of timing and pricing. Thus, the impact of open
market buybacks found to be less than that for tender offer buybacks.
All the previous studies in India analyzed effect of public announcement of
buybacks. There is no study which looked into the effect of announcement of
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buyback approvals. As mentioned earlier, the information about the buyback is
released in two to three stages. In the first stage company communicates about the
approval of buyback to exchange, in the second stage some companies release the
information through public notice in print media, and in the final stage every
company is required make public announcement of buyback in print media. This
part of the study analyzes effect of approval of buybacks.
Of 79 open market buybacks identified above, the following criteria are used to
include a buyback in to the final sample:
i) Stock prices should be available on the BSE website for 11 days before the
approval day to 10 days after the approval day.
ii) The date of buyback approval is available in one of the documents
available on SEBI website.
These additional requirements reduce the final sample to 64 open market buybacks
through stock exchanges (made by 59 different companies) for analysis of the effect
of approval of buybacks. List of the sample firms is given in Appendix-2.
Table-1 presents the distribution of the final sample across the calendar years.
Table-1 about hereYears 2008 and 2009 account for more than 60% of the sample buyback approvals.
According to information available on the BSE website total number of buybacks
during 2008 and 2009 were 30 and 36, respectively. The significant increase in
buybacks during 2008 and 2009 can be attributed to the global meltdown. It seems
management of Indian companies was good at timing of buybacks in 2008 by
launching them when the markets bottomed. The S&P CNX 500 lost 57% during
the calendar year 2008. The timing was not correct for buybacks in 2009. The S&P
CNX 500 gained 84% during the calendar year 2009. (in the USA, S&P 500
companies spent record $589 billion on buybacks in 2007; subsequently S&P 500
index was down by 38.5% in 2008. Another case of bad timing of buybacks by the
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USA companies was in 2000 when they loaded up on buybacks, just before the burst
of IT bubble which lasted until 2002).
Summary statistics describing the characteristics of the sample of open market
buybacks through stock exchanges is presented in table-2. The premium offered,
relative to closing price one day prior to board approval day is sizable. Buyback
price is on average 38.67% higher than the closing price on the day preceding
buyback approval. The range of premium is 165.90% to -2.80%.
Table-2 about here
Three day (-1 to + 1 day, 0 being the announcement day) mean abnormal return for the
sample is 2.70% (for returns based on closing price) and 3.49% (for returns based on
weighted average price) for the case where returns on the index is considered as expected
return on the stock. The same in the case where average daily returns on the stock during
one year period ending one month prior to the date of buyback approval are 2.94% and
4.35%, respectively. All of these abnormal returns are significantly different from zero a
0.01 level and above. Varying degrees of positive skewness exist in the distribution of each
of these parameters, but the medians of these distributions are of same general magnitude
as means for most of the parameters. Clearly, buybacks are significant events in the lives othe corporations which undertake them.
Post-buyback public announcement document is available for 22 of 64 sample buybacks
This buyback document provides information like average price paid, actual opening date
actual closing date, amount utilized for buyback, number of shares bought back.etc..
Characteristics of the sub-sample of the above 22 buybacks are as follows:
Six buybacks delayed opening of buyback, on average , by 6,25 days
Five buybacks closed early, on average, by 180 days
Average buyback period is 202 days
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Target buyback was 5.58% of outstanding shares, actual is 3.89%
Average buyback price is 29.41% discount to stated maximum buyback price
Average buyback price is 3.4% above the price on one day prior to the approval of
buyback
Average amount utilized for buyback is 55.72% of the amount allocated.
Table-3 presents reasons for buyback, as stated by the sample buyback companies in the
public announcement document.
Table-3 about here
As per the regulations governing share buybacks in India, buyback companies are
required to give the reasons for the buyback. Number reason given by the sample
buyback companies varies from three to five. As given in table-3, all of the sample
companies given the reason to improve EPS, RONW, and overall shareholder value
for buyback, around half of the sample companies stated to utilize surplus funds
and to provide exit route without adverse impact on price as additional reasons.Four of the sample companies stated to reflect confidence of management in future
prospects and only two of the sample companies stated to signal undervaluation of
stock among the reasons for buyback. If investors accept the first reason of
improving EPS, RONW, and shareholder value through buyback (and also reasons 4
and five); we expect positive effect of buyback on stock prices of buyback companies.
Thus, information signaling theory is suitable for empirical testing on this sample.
Announcement days are spread across the days of the week. Table-4 presents the
distribution of the sample by the day of announcement. Only 22% of the approval
announcements are made at the beginning of the week (Mondays) and 27% on the
weekend (Fridays).
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Table-4 about hereThus, the returns of the sample firms are not affected by temporal anomalies.
8. RESULTS8.1 Announcement Effect Approval of Buyback for Case-1 where the S&P CNX 500
index return is considered as expected return on the sample stocks
Table-5 presents time series of average abnormal returns around date of buyback
approval for the sample of 64 open market buybacks through stock exchanges.
These abnormal returns are excess returns over returns on the S&P CNX 500 index.
Column 1 identifies the trading day relative to day 0 (approval day). Results under
columns 2-6 are related to the case of closing price based return computation.
Column-2 presents daily average abnormal return (AAR) , column 3 reports the
number(percentage) of those abnormal returns which are positive. Column 4 reports
cumulative average abnormal return (CAAR). Column 5 reports the cross-sectional
standard deviation of the daily abnormal returns for each trading day and t-statistic
is reported under column 6. Similar results for the case of weighted average price
based return computation are presented under columns 7-11.
Table-5 about hereIn the case of closing price based returns, trading days -5, -4 and -1 reported AAR of
3.27%, 2.27% and 1.43%, respectively. These returns are statistically significant at
levels 0.01 and above. The positive AARs for these days are further supported by
majority of positive abnormal returns of individual securities. Significant positive
abnormal returns for day -5 and -1 days can be attributed to the fact that companies
communicate the date of board meeting to consider buyback in advance to stock
exchange. The high positive abnormal return for -5 and -4 days can be attributed to
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over-reaction to information. Significant positive abnormal return for day -1 can be
because of availability of information through electronic media a day before it is
announced through print media. The over-reaction seems to have been corrected on
days +3 and +4 which reported significant negative AAR of 1.65% and 0.93%,
respectively. Overall cumulative average abnormal returns (CAARs) for the window
of 21 trading days around the announcement of buyback approval is 5.53%
Similar results are reported for the case of weighted average price based returns,
except that in addition to -5,-4,-1 days significant positive AARs are observed on day
0 as well. Trading days -5 and -4 reported significant positive AARs of 3.01% and
2.54%, respectively, whereas, trading day -1 and 0 reported significant positive AAR
of 1.16% and 1.50%, respectively. The initial overreaction to the announcement
seems to have corrected on +3 and +4 days which have reported significant negative
AARs of 1.46% and 1.17%, respectively. Overall cumulative average abnormal
returns (CAARs) for the window of 21 trading days around the announcement of
buyback approval is 6.16%
In addition, three day announcement period (-1,0,and +1 trading days) cumulative
average abnormal returns (CAARs) are computed. This period is expected to
capture early reaction, timely reaction and delayed reaction to the announcement.
For the case of closing price based returns the three day CAAR is 3.76% and for the
case of weighted average price based returns it is 4.41% (see table-7). Both the
returns are statistically significant.
Figure-1 portrays the cumulative average abnormal returns (CAARs) graphically
for closing price based returns and for weighted average price based returns,
respectively. The CAAR is presented to demonstrate that the announcement impactis not a temporary price response. While there has been over-reaction and
correction, the announcement of buyback approval has created CAAR of 5.53% (for
closing price based returns) and 6.16% ( for weighted average price based returns)
over the period of 21 trading days around the announcement of buyback approval.
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Fig-1 about herePositive average abnormal returns resulting from the announcement of approval of
buyback are apparently consistent with information effect. Investors perceive the
announcement as positive information. Thus, the null hypothesis (H0) about the
effect of announcement of buyback approval is rejected.
8.2 Announcement Effect Approval of Buyback for Case-2 where average daily
logarithmic returns on the sample stocks during one year period ending one month
prior to the approval of buyback is considered as expected return on the sample
stocks
Table-6 presents time series of average abnormal returns around date of buyback
approval for the sample of 64 open market buybacks through stock exchanges.
These abnormal returns are excess returns over average daily logarithmic returns
during one year period ending one month prior to the approval of buyback.
Table-6 about hereIn the case of closing price based returns, trading days -5 and -1 reported AAR of
2.97% and 1.76%, respectively. These returns are statistically significant at levels
0.01 and above. The positive AARs for these days are further supported by majority
of positive abnormal returns of individual securities. The over-reaction seems to
have been corrected on +3 and +4 days which reported negative AAR of 1.16% and
0.93%(significant at 0.02 level). Overall cumulative average abnormal returns
(CAARs) for the window of 21 trading days around the announcement of buyback
approval is 9.88%.
Similar results are reported for the case of weighted average price based returns,
except that in addition to -5,-4,-1 days significant positive AARs are observed on day
0 as well. Trading days -5 and -4 reported significant positive AARs of 2.74% and
2.55%, respectively, whereas, trading days -1 and 0 reported significant positive
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AAR of 1.60% and 1.83%, respectively. The initial overreaction to the announcement
seems to have corrected on +3 and +4 days which have reported significant negative
AARs of 0.83% and 1.00% (significant at 0.05 level), respectively. Overall
cumulative average abnormal returns (CAARs) for the window of 21 trading days
around the announcement of buyback approval is 11.32%
In addition, three day announcement period (-1,0,and +1 trading days) CAARs are
computed. For the case of closing price based returns the three day CAAR is 2.94%
and for the case of weighted average price based returns it is 4.35% (see table-7).
Both the returns are statistically significant.
Table-7 about hereFigure-2 portrays the cumulative average abnormal returns (CAARs) graphically
for closing price based returns and for weighted average price based returns,
respectively. The CAAR is presented to demonstrate that the announcement impact
is not a temporary price response. While there has been over-reaction and
correction, the announcement of buyback approval has created CAAR of 9.88% (for
closing price based returns) and 11.32% ( for weighted average price based returns)
over the period of 21 trading days around the announcement of buyback approval.
Fig-3 about hereThere are no previous studies conducted to analyze the effect of the announcement
of approval of buybacks, neither in India nor elsewhere. Therefore, the results are
not comparable
Positive average abnormal returns resulting from the announcement of approval of
buyback are apparently consistent with information effect. Investors perceive the
announcement as positive information. Thus, the null hypothesis (H1) about the
effect of announcement of buyback approval is rejected even in the case where
historical daily returns are considered as expected returns.
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9. CONCLUSIONSThe objective of this study is to analyze the announcement effect of open market
share buyback approval.
This study finds evidence of significant effect of the announcement of buyback
approvals on the stock values. It is also found that the positive effect of the
announcements is sustained.
Based on the evidence, it can be concluded that investors apparently perceive
buybacks as positive signal. The results are consistent with information signaling
hypothesisof share buybacks.
10. FUTURE WORK As continuation of the study, future work will include addressing the following
questions related to open market share buybacks:
What is the wealth effect of the share buybacks? How the wealth created by
the share buyback is distributed between tendering and non-tendering
shareholders?
If the share buyback is used as information signaling device (alternatively, if
the share buyback is perceived as information signal by investors), is the
signal credible? Does the operating performance of buyback firms improve
significantly?
Does the long-term stock market performance of the buyback firms is
significantly different from non-buyback firms?
Is the improvement in operating and stock-market performance of the
buyback firms is driven by pre-buyback downward earnings management?
As of now, none of the studies on Indian share buybacks have looked into the above
aspects of share buyback.
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Table1:Sampledistributionbyyear
Year N Fraction(%)
2003 1 2
2004 4 6
2005 5 8
2006
5
8
2007 4 6
2008 19 30
2009 23 36
2010* 3 5
Total 64 100.00
*tillJune
Table2:Summarystatisticsforsamplecharacteristics
Characteristic
Mean
Median
High
Low
Buybackpremiumrelativetoclosingprice
onedaypriortoapprovalofbuyback 38.67% 25.76% 165.90% 2.80%
Min.percentageofoutstandingtobeboughtback 6.22% 4.89% 25% 0.17%
Maximumamountallocatedforbuyback(Rs.
Millions) 1113.49 213.50 11000.00 5.56
Prebuybackpromoters'holding 48.66% 48.65% 88.16% 2.77%
Expectedpostbuybackpromoters'holding 51.73% 53.69% 88.50% 2.93%
ThreedayCPbased CAAR1 2.7%** 2.50% 38.20% 12.00%
ThreedayWAPbasedCAAR1 3.49%** 2.77% 39.94% 11.59%
ThreedayCPbased CAAR2 2.94%** 3.16% 40.04% 15.09%
ThreedayWAPbasedCAAR2 4.35%*** 3.06% 41.60% 13.64%
CP:closingprice;WAP:weightedaverageprice;
CAAR:cumulativeaverageabnormalreturn
1forthe
case
where
return
on
the
S&P
CNX
500
index
is
considered
as
expected
return
on
the
stock
2forthecasewhereaveragedailyreturnonthestockduringoneyearperiodendingonemonthpriortotheapprovalor
**significantlydifferentfromzeroat0.01level.
***significantlydifferentfromzeroat0.001level
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Table3:ReasonsforBuyback
Reason Frequency
1.ToimproveEPS,RONW,
andoverallshareholdervalue 64
2.To
utilize
surplus
funds
34
3.Toprovideexitroutewithout
adverseimpactonprice 33
4.Toreflectconfidenceof
managementinfutureprospects 4
5.Tosignalundervaluationof
stock 2
Table4:Sampledistributionbythedayofannouncement
Day Frequency Percentage
Sat&Sun 3 5
Mon 14 22
Tue 10 16
Wed 8 13
Thu
12
19
Fri 17 27
Total 64 100
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Table5:AnnouncementEffectofApprovalofBuyback
Case1:ReturnsontheS&PCNX500indexisconsideredasexpectedreturns
ClosingPrice(CP) BasedReturns(N=64) WeightedAveragePrice(WAP)Based
Day AAR PositiveARs(%) CAAR SD tvalue AAR PositiveARs(%) C
10 0.31% 34(54) 0.31% 4.73% 0.5265 0.47% 32(50) 0
9
0.52%
22
(35)
0.21%
4.21%
0.989
0.07%
25
(39)
0
8 0.27% 32(51) 0.07% 4.14% 0.5323 0.30% 30(47) 0
7 0.02% 29(46) 0.05% 3.83% 0.032 0.41% 32(50) 0
6 0.74% 30(48) 0.79% 5.02% 1.195 0.41% 31(48) 1
5 3.27%**** 40(63) 4.06% 5.79% 4.551 3.01%**** 46(72) 4
4 2.27%* 39(62) 6.34% 6.61% 2.779 2.54%*** 41(64) 6
3 0.15% 31(49) 6.19% 3.86% 0.3039 0.28% 33(52) 6
2 0.01% 29(46) 6.21% 4.15% 0.02 0.34% 32(50) 6
1 1.43%*** 46(73) 7.64% 3.45% 3.348 1.16%** 41(64) 7
0 0.96% 32(51) 8.60% 4.45% 1.75 1.50%** 47(73) 9
1
0.30%
34(54)
8.91%
5.48% 0.445
0.84%
32
(50)
10
2 0.51% 25(40) 8.40% 4.46% 0.9207 0.75% 24(38) 9
3 1.65%**** 15(24) 6.74% 3.03% 4.406 1.46%**** 16(25) 7
4 0.93%* 26(41) 5.81% 3.00% 2.5082 1.17%** 24(38) 6
5 0.26% 26(41) 5.55% 2.65% 0.7875 0.31% 27(42) 6
6 0.21% 26(41) 5.34% 2.44% 0.7053 0.48% 24(38) 5
7 0.70% 28(44) 4.64% 2.67% 2.1124 0.51% 24(38) 5
8 0.41% 30(48) 5.05% 3.31% 0.9915 0.08% 26(41) 5
9 0.19% 28(44) 5.24% 3.65% 0.4154 0.33% 30(47) 5
10 0.29% 30(48) 5.53% 3.01% 0.7845 0.39% 33(52) 6
CP:closing
price;
WAP:
weighted
average
price
AAR:
average
abnormal
return;
AR:
abnormal
return;
CAARs:
cumulative
ave
SD:standarddeviationofabnormalreturns
*significantat0.01level:**significantat0.005level;***significantat0.002level;****significantat0.001level(alltwot
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Table6:AnnouncementEffectofApprovalofBuyback(N=64)
Case2:Averagedailylogarithmicreturnsonthestockduringoneyearperiodending
Onepriortotheapprovalofbuybackisconsideredasexpectedreturn
CPBasedReturns WAPBasedReturns
Day
AAR
PositiveARs
(%)
CAAR
SD
tvalue
AAR
PositiveARs
(%)
10 0.38% 40(63) 0.38% 5.27% 0.582 0.65% 39(61)
9 0.41% 30(47) 0.02% 4.07% 0.798 0.30% 33(52)
8 0.27% 32(50) 0.24% 4.28% 0.497 0.34% 26(41)
7 0.35% 35(64) 0.60% 4.67% 0.606 0.68% 34(53)
6 1.14% 35(64) 1.73% 5.21% 1.747 0.91% 33(52)
5 2.97%**** 41(64) 4.70% 5.95% 3.995 2.74%**** 39(61)
4 2.35% 37(58) 7.06% 7.26% 2.594 2.55%*** 41(64)
3 0.11% 35(55) 6.94% 4.18% 0.216 0.22% 38(59)
2 0.73% 37(58) 7.67% 4.71% 1.234 0.37% 35(55)
1
1.76%****
46
(72)
9.43%
3.85%
3.648
1.60%****
42
(66)
0 0.61% 34(53) 10.04% 4.49% 1.085 1.83%* 42(66)
1 0.58% 31(48) 10.61% 6.06% 0.764 0.92% 33(52)
2 0.02% 29(45) 10.64% 4.71% 0.042 0.34% 25(39)
3 1.16% 28(44) 9.48% 3.79% 2.450 0.83% 27(42)
4 0.93% 23(36) 8.55% 2.84% 2.617 0.01% 26(41)
5 0.05% 31(48) 8.60% 3.02% 0.124 0.07% 29(45)
6 0.49% 33(52) 9.08% 2.92% 1.334 0.10% 33(52)
7 0.68% 29(45) 8.41% 2.95% 1.836 0.35% 28(44)
8 0.46% 32(50) 8.87% 3.59% 1.032 0.13% 35(55)
9 0.50% 24(38) 9.37% 3.73% 1.075 0.78% 37(58)
10 0.51% 31(48) 9.88% 3.32% 1.223 0.49% 35(55)
CP:closingprice; WAP:weightedaveragepriceAAR:averageabnormalreturn;AR:abnormalreturns;CAARs:cumulativeav
standarddeviationofabnormalreturns
*significantat0.01level:**significantat0.005level;***significantat0.002level;****significantat0.001level(alltwot
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Table7:Threeday(1to+1days)cumulativeaverageabnormalreturns
(CAARs)
Return SD tvalue
ForthecasewheretheS&PCNX500returns aretakenasbenchmarkreturns
Closingpricebasedreturns 3.76%** 10.84% 2.774
Weightedaveragepricebasedreturns 4.41%*** 11.95% 2.955
Forthecasewhereaveragedailyreturnsduringoneyearperiodending
onemonthpriortobuybackapprovaltakenasbenchmarkreturns
Closingpricebasedreturns 2.94%** 8.74% 2.683
Weightedaveragepricebasedreturns 4.35%**** 10.00% 3.481
** significant at 0.01 level; *** significant at 0.005 level ; ****significant at 0.001 level(all two-tailed tests)
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CP: closing price; WAP: weighted average price; CAAR: cumulative average abnormal retu
Figure-1
2.00%
0.00%
2.00%
4.00%
6.00%
8.00%
10.00%
12.00%
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
CAAR
TradingDays
EffectofapprovallofsharebuybacksCase1:Marketreturnsconsideredasexpectedreturns
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CP: closing price; WAP: weighted average price; CAAR: cumulative average abnormal retu
Figure-2
2.00%
0.00%
2.00%
4.00%
6.00%
8.00%
10.00%
12.00%
14.00%
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
CAAR
TradingDay
Effectofapprovalofsharebuyback
Case:2:Historicalreturnsisconsideredasexpectedretu
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Appendix1:BetasandRsquaresvalues fortheSampleCompanieswhichhave
undertakenopenmarketbuybacksthroughstockexchanges
SNo Company Beta1 RSquare
1 Beta
2 Rsquare
2
1 BritaniaIndustriesLtd 0.24 0.06 0.09 0.01
2 SolitaireMachinetoolsLtd 0.21 0.001 0.12 0.008
3 MastekLtd(1) 1.23 0.17 0.92 0.1
4 GodrejConsumerProductsLtd(1) 0.42 0.068 0.15 0.008
5 RelianceIndustriesLtd 1.09 0.7 0.11 0.01
6 DILLtd 0.88 0.23 0.93 0.27
7 PolarisSoftwareLabLtd 1.35 0.57 1.34 0.58
8 BergerPaintsLtd 0.51 0.01 0.56 0.01
9 GodrejConsumerProductsLtd(2) 0.23 0.05 0.23 0.05
10 IndiabullsFinancialServicdesLtd 1.42 0.11 1.57 0.13
11
SRFLtd
(1)
1.78 0.36 2.02
0.42
12 RevathiEquipmentsLtd 0.67 0.16 0.8 0.21
13 NatcoPharmaLtd 0.57 0.14 0.64 0.17
14 CarolInfoServicesLtd 0.74 0.13 0.89 0.18
15 ACESoftwareExports Ltd 0.63 0.07 0.72 0.09
16 GujaratAmbujaExportsLtd 0.75 0.12 0.84 0.15
17 MROTekLtd(1) 1.32 0.32 1.47 0.38
18 HindustalUnileverLtd 0.09 0.004 0.09 0.004
19 MastekLtd(2) 0.51 0.12 0.53 0.14
20 PatniComputerSystemsLtd 0.08 0.002 0.11 0.005
21
MadrasCements
Ltd
0.68 0.24 0.75
0.27
22 GreatOffshoreLtd 0.98 0.36 1.06 0.43
23 SaskenCommunicationTechLtd 1.19 0.32 1.3 0.39
24 SRFLtd(2) 1.04 0.33 1.5 0.42
25 DLF Ltd 1.45 0.61 1.46 0.63
26 GatewayDistriparksLtd 0.03 0.0003 0.3 0.0003
27 GujaratFlorochemicalsLtd 0.12 0.0026 0.08 0.0013
28 SuranaTelecomandPowerLtd 0.85 0.21 0.96 0.28
29 IpcaLabLtd 0.23 0.07 0.24 0.08
30 SuprmeIndustriesLtd 0.66 0.22 0.72 0.26
31
EIDParry
Ltd
0.48 0.0025 0.42
0.009
32 HydroS&SIndustriesLtd 0.56 0.08 0.66 0.11
33 TTKHealthCareLtd 0.14 0.01 0.26 0.07
34 TVTodayNetworkLtd 0.85 0.3 0.96 0.35
35 ZenTechnologiesLtd 0.45 0.07 0.86 0.24
36 SandeshLtdLtd 0.09 0.004 0.18 0.029
37 GitanjaliGemsLtd 0.87 0.29 0.97 0.32
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38 GodrejIndustriesLtd 1.18 0.08 2.33 0.78
39 SelanExplorationLtd 0.85 0.2 0.96 0.24
40 AustinEngineeringCo.Ltd 0.67 0.24 0.73 0.27
41 MangalamCementsLtd 0.73 0.33 0.8 0.38
42 KilburnEngineeringLtd 0.83 0.25 1.01 0.18
43
LKPFinance
Ltd
0.25 0.03 0.65
0.18
44 MROTekLtd(2) 1.05 0.37 1.17 0.41
45 GSSAmericaInfotechLtd 1.05 0.24 1.13 0.25
46 ApolloTyresLtd 0.59 0.25 0.66 0.29
47 IndiaBullsSecuritiesLtd 0.91 0.26 1.05 0.98
48 PennarIndustriesLtd 0.02 0.0002 0.58 0.27
49 DaiIchiKarkariaLtd 0.04 0.009 0.06 0.082
50 AvantelLtd 0.32 0.03 0.83 0.39
51 MerckLtd 0.26 0.17 0.29 0.19
52 DeccanChronicleHoldingsLtd 1.07 0.36 1.2 0.4
53
JindalPolyfilms
Ltd
0.46 0.13 0.53
0.15
54 ProvogueIndiaLtd 0.51 0.12 0.6 0.15
55 SRFLtd(3) 0.57 0.26 0.67 0.32
56 BhagyanagarIndiaLtd 0.51 0.11 0.83 0.27
57 PoddarPigmentsLtd 0.15 0.01 0.49 0.07
58 GoldiamInternationalLtd 0.64 0.17 0.75 0.2
59 ApcotexIndustriesLtd 0.05 0.001 0.4 0.004
60 FDCLtd 0.22 0.01 1.08 0.74
61 TIPSIndustriesLtd 0.23 0.01 0.82 0.15
62 ManaksiaLtd 0.53 0.06 0.89 0.16
63
PanaceaLtd
0.42 0.03 0.72
0.14
64 GeodesicLtd 0.98 0.12 0.97 0.49
Beta1:Valueofbeta withS&PCNX50Indexasmarketportfolio
Rsquare1:ValueofRsquarewithS&PCNX50 Indexasmarketportfolio
Beta2:ValueofbetawithS&PCNX500Index asmarketportfolio
Rsquare2:valueofRsquarewithS&PCNX500 Indexasmarketportfolio
AR:averagedailyreturns
Theabovevaluesarecomputedusingdaily logarithmicreturnsforoneyearperiod
endingonemonthpriortothepublicannouncementofbuyback.
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Appendix2:ListofSampleCompanieswhichhaveundertaken
openmarketbuybacksthroughstockexchanges
SNo Company
YearofBoard
Approval
1 BritaniaIndustriesLtd 2003
2
SolitaireMachine
tools
Ltd
2004
3 MastekLtd(1) 2004
4 GodrejConsumerProductsLtd(1) 2004
5 RelianceIndustriesLtd 2004
6 DILLtd 2005
7 PolarisSoftwareLabLtd 2005
8 BergerPaintsLtd 2005
9 GodrejConsumerProductsLtd(2) 2005
10 IndiabullsFinancialServicdesLtd 2005
11 SRFLtd(1) 2006
12
RevathiEquipments
Ltd
2006
13 NatcoPharmaLtd 2006
14 CarolInfoServicesLtd 2006
15 ACESoftwareExports Ltd 2006
16 GujaratAmbujaExportsLtd 2007
17 MROTekLtd(1) 2007
18 HindustalUnileverLtd 2007
19 MastekLtd(2) 2007
20 PatniComputerSystemsLtd 2008
21 MadrasCementsLtd 2008
22
Great
Offshore
Ltd
2008
23 SaskenCommunicationTechLtd 2008
24 SRFLtd(2) 2008
25 DLF Ltd 2008
26 GatewayDistriparksLtd 2008
27 GujaratFlorochemicalsLtd 2008
28 SuranaTelecomandPowerLtd 2008
29 IPCALabLtd 2008
30 SuprmeIndustriesLtd 2008
31 EIDParryLtd 2008
32 HydroS&SLtd 2008
33 TTKHealthCareLtd 2008
34 TVTodayNetworkLtd 2008
35 ZenTechnologiesLtd 2008
36 SandeshLtdLtd 2008
37 GitanjaliGemsLtd 2008
38 GodrejIndustriesLtd 2008
39 SelanExplorationLtd 2009
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40 AustinEngineeringCo.Ltd 2009
41 MangalamCementsLtd 2009
42 KilburnEngineeringLtd 2009
43 LKPFinanceLtd 2009
44 MROTekLtd(2) 2009
45
GSSAmerica
Infotech
Ltd
2009
46 ApolloTyresLtd 2009
47 IndiaBullsSecuritiesLtd 2009
48 PennarIndustriesLtd 2009
49 DaiIchiKarkariaLtd 2009
50 AvantelLtd 2009
51 MerckLtd 2009
52 DeccanChronicleHoldingsLtd 2009
53 JindalPolyfilmsLtd 2009
54 ProvogueIndiaLtd 2009
55
SRFLtd
(3)
2009
56 BhagyanagarIndiaLtd 2009
57 PoddarPigmentsLtd 2009
58 GoldiamInternationalLtd 2009
59 ApcotexIndustriesLtd 2009
60 FDCLtd 2009
61 TIPSIndustriesLtd 2009
62 ManaksiaLtd 2010
63 PanaceaLtd 2010
64 GeodesicLtd 2010
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