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Second, annual meeting dates were also obtained from the Moody’s Manuals. For each company the mean price ratio five months, four months, three months, two months and one month before the annual meeting was compared with the mean price ratio one month and two months after the annual meeting. Again the results were inconclusive.
Third, the month-end price ratios were examined for the twelve months preceding the retirement of the two classes of shares. For six companies in categories 1 and 2 our price data included the month immediately preceding the retirement of the two classes of shares. In all six cases the explicit payoffs to both classes at(retirement were identical. Twelve months prior to
retirement the average month-end price ratto of the six firms was 1.028. Six months prior to
retirement the average ratio was 1.014. During the month immediately preceding retirement the
average price ratio was 1.005. At that time the largest of the six price ratios was 1.015 and three of the six ratios were 1.000. The decline in average price ratios over the twelve months prior to retirement suggests that the present value of incremental benefits decreases after the
announcement that the two classes of shares are to be retired on identical terms. These average
ratios do not identify the source of the price differences twelve months prior to retirement, but the general decline in the average ratio prior to retirement suggests that the differences between the valuations of the classes represent the present value of a stream of incremental benefits into the future.
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