Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to test the low price phenomen for Istanbul Stock Exchange. In this connection, 185 initial public offerings which were offered to the public from 1990 to 1999- have been analysed. In this research, average abnormal returns and cumulative average abnormal returns have been also calculated. According to the results of this study, the average abnormal returns within 36 months have reached the positive value in 13 months, whereas they have reached a negative value in 23 months. At the end of 36 months, cumulative average abnormal returns reached the value of -15.26%. In other words these stocks could not provide for their investors a return over the market. Moreover, in this study 16 groups were formed according to their activity area and smiliar results were obtained. In this study, it has been reached that in long run, one can not obtain returns over the market throughout the strategie of investing on the initial public offerings in ISE

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