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In today’s briefing:

  • Japan’s Governance: What’s Behind the Underperformance of Companies with Takeover Defenses?

Japan’s Governance: What’s Behind the Underperformance of Companies with Takeover Defenses?

By Aki Matsumoto

  • It would be reasonable to hypothesize that companies with takeover defense measures generally lack a clear growth policy and fail to communicate such a growth policy to investors.
  • With regard to Growth Policy and Capital Allocation Policy and Disclosures, the analysis of companies with and without anti-takeover measures revealed a clear difference.
  • Companies with anti-takeover lack robust growth policy and capital allocation to increase corporate value and fail to communicate the policy to investors, resulting in lower foreign shareholders, low market cap.

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