Abstract

Flipping activities provide liquidity and enhance IPOs efficiency; however, enormous “stagging” phenomenon may hurt the investors during the secondary market. This paper aims to study whether the effort of IPOs performance moderates the flipping activity in different market momentums. A quantitative research is adopted in this paper with a set of 344 IPOs data collected to proxy the flipping activities, IPOs initial performance and market momentums. Hierarchy regression is applied to analyze the interaction effect of moderating variable to the independent variable and dependent variable. The results revealed the following: market momentum of very cold IPOs helped in encouraging flipping activities on trading volume; hot IPOs helped in stimulating flipping activities for both trading volume and share offered. Nevertheless, there is a moderating effect of IPOs initial performance towards hot IPOs to affect flipping activities. The IPO market experiences active flipping activities in hot IPOs and very cold IPOs; to assist in predicting subsequent trading activity. It helps the underwriter to retain the stabilization of share prices, to prevent abnormal “stagging” activities and create market efficiency. From the investor’s perspective, liquidity risk is reduced in regard to the IPOs performance through flipping activities.

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