ROE, Market Value Added and Shareholder Value Creation [ROE, Market Value Added e Creazione di Valore]

Presented at the EAA Annual Congress, Rome, April 20-22, 2011

34 Pages Posted: 18 Sep 2010 Last revised: 8 Nov 2012

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Carlo Alberto Magni

Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) - School of Doctorate E4E (Engineering for Economics-Economics for Engineering)

Date Written: September 18, 2010

Abstract

In both finance and accounting, the Return On Equity (ROE) is considered a biased indicator of economic profitability. Opposing this view, this paper shows that an appropriate mean of ROEs signals shareholder value creation. This implies that the notion of Market Value Added may be replaced by an average ROE net of the cost of capital. Such a measure does not suffer from problems of existence or uniqueness and may be employed for comparing profitability. The Internal Rate of Return (IRR) itself may be interpreted as the average ROE corresponding to an idealized depreciation system: such an interpretation enables one to solve the multiple-IRR problem and to use the IRR for comparing firms’ profitability.

(Includes abridged version in Italian; Una versione ridotta in lingua italiana è inclusa in calce all'articolo)

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Keywords: Return On Equity, Market Value Added, Value Creation, Average, Internal Rat of Return, cash flow to equity

JEL Classification: M41, G10, G12, G31, M21

Suggested Citation

Magni, Carlo Alberto, ROE, Market Value Added and Shareholder Value Creation [ROE, Market Value Added e Creazione di Valore] (September 18, 2010). Presented at the EAA Annual Congress, Rome, April 20-22, 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1678057

Carlo Alberto Magni (Contact Author)

Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) - School of Doctorate E4E (Engineering for Economics-Economics for Engineering) ( email )

Italy

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