Ritter's Study of SEO's Suggests That

question 24

Multiple Choice

Ritter's study of SEO's suggests that:

• A)managers appear to be able to successfully time SEO issues when the stock is overpriced.
• B)managers can only successfully time SEO issuance by pure chance.
• C)managers tend to be incorrect in their market assessment of the market movement of their firm's stock price.
• D)returns on SEO-issuing firms are statistically the same as those of style-matched non-issuers for the five years following issuance.
• E)firms are better at timing IPOs than they are at timing SEOs.

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