Tottenham Hotspur plc

Lauren H. Cohen; Joshua D. Coval; Christopher J. Malloy

Case | HBS Case Collection | November 2008 (Revised August 2012)

Tottenham Hotspur plc

by Lauren H. Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy

Abstract

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is a publicly-owned professional soccer team based in London, England. The club's chairman, Daniel Levy, is contemplating a significant investment in physical assets, including the development of a new stadium as well as the acquisition of a new player. The team must decide if the expected cash flows associated with adding the stadium, the player, or both, warrant the considerable required investments in these assets.

Keywords: Valuation; Capital Budgeting; Decisions; Competency and Skills; Cash Flow; Investment; Assets; Buildings and Facilities; Sports; Sports Industry; London;

Language: English

Format: Print

12 pages

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Cohen, Lauren H., Joshua D. Coval, and Christopher J. Malloy. "Tottenham Hotspur plc." Harvard Business School Case 209-059, November 2008. (Revised August 2012.)

Working Paper | 2018

IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice

Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, Christopher J. Malloy, Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou and Christopher J. Malloy

Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR servers between 2004 and 2015, we show that mutual fund managers gather information on a very particular subset of firms and insiders, and their surveillance is very persistent over time. This tracking behavior has powerful implications for their portfolio choice and its information content. An institution that downloaded an insider-trading filing by a given firm last quarter increases its likelihood of downloading an insider-trading filing on the same firm by more than 41.3% this quarter. Moreover, the average tracked stock that an institution buys generates annualized alphas of between 9% to 18% relative to the purchase of an average non-tracked stock. We find that institutional managers tend to track members of the top management teams of firms (CEOs, CFOs, Presidents, and Board Chairs) and tend to share educational and location-based commonalities with the specific insiders they choose to follow. Collectively, our results suggest that the information in tracked trades is important for fundamental firm value and is only revealed following the information-rich dual trading by insiders and linked institutions.

Keywords: Institutional Investing; Information; Investment Portfolio; Decisions; Management;

Citation:

Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy. "IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24801, July 2018. View Details

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