Description
Understanding pricing strategies in the context of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process has been receiving much attention. Most prior studies have however focused on information sources from post issuance periods, and understanding such strategies from the management’s perspective during the IPO process is still an open research issue. Form 424 variants, as finalized IPO prospectus approved by Security Exchange Committee (SEC), contain rich and genuine information about the issuing firms. In this study, we analyze the inter-relationships between the management’s confidence (through the proxy of sentiments expressed in textual contents in the Management’s Discussion & Analysis (MD&A) sections in the prospectus) and the pre-/post-IPO valuations. We develop an analytical framework namely FOCAS-IE (Feature-Oriented, Context-Aware, Systematic Information Extraction) to derive sentiments from the MD&A sections. Further, we construct predictive models using information extracted using FOCAS-IE to predict IPO pricings. The results have shown to outperform results from prior related studies.
Recommended Citation
Deokar, Amit and Tao, Jie, "Text Mining for Studying Management’s Confidence in IPO Prospectuses and IPO Valuations" (2015). AMCIS 2015 Proceedings. 17.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2015/General/GeneralPresentations/17
Text Mining for Studying Management’s Confidence in IPO Prospectuses and IPO Valuations
Understanding pricing strategies in the context of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process has been receiving much attention. Most prior studies have however focused on information sources from post issuance periods, and understanding such strategies from the management’s perspective during the IPO process is still an open research issue. Form 424 variants, as finalized IPO prospectus approved by Security Exchange Committee (SEC), contain rich and genuine information about the issuing firms. In this study, we analyze the inter-relationships between the management’s confidence (through the proxy of sentiments expressed in textual contents in the Management’s Discussion & Analysis (MD&A) sections in the prospectus) and the pre-/post-IPO valuations. We develop an analytical framework namely FOCAS-IE (Feature-Oriented, Context-Aware, Systematic Information Extraction) to derive sentiments from the MD&A sections. Further, we construct predictive models using information extracted using FOCAS-IE to predict IPO pricings. The results have shown to outperform results from prior related studies.