IPO Performance Prediction During Covid-19 Using Decision Tree Algorithum
IPO Performance Prediction During Covid-19 Using Decision Tree Algorithum
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explain the IPO underpricing phenomenon and to find
out whether the decision tree algorithm model was able to predict the IPO performance
during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Indonesian capital market. The model developed
uses the IPO performance classification target variables, namely overpricing, zero,
underpricing level-1 or underpricing level-2. Through the modeling of the decision tree
algorithm using 149 IPO action data for 2017-2019 and tested on 45 IPO action data in
2020, the results of the study found that the decision tree algorithm was able to explain
IPO performance based on the specified classification range. The use of the decision tree
algorithm model to explain the IPO performance can be an alternative to the linear
regression econometric model that has been widely used in previous studies to provide
input for investors in making investment decisions.
1. INTRODUCTION
Indonesia is one of the most frequent IPO performance during the Covid-19
pandemic of 2020 in South-East Asia, involving 46 companies, with the total cost of
raising funding of $385 million despites of being less than half the sum for the same
period in the previous year (Sari, 2020). As financial-sector academics, we are interested
in investigating IPO performance because it is never the case in recent decades following
the global Covid-19 pandemic outbreak.
The current global stock market situation shows that the financial markets have
been seriously affected by the pandemic and IPO underpricing have occurred worldwide,
including in the US capital market, which is known for its high effectiveness. The excess
return on the first day is known as "the secret of the IPO underpricing rate” (Han, 2016). It
shows three points in particular. First, an initial short-term public offering that is
underpricing, or an IPO has an abnormal return on the first day. Second, in the long term,
it has a high price. Third, hot market issues emerge. Until now, many researchers and
analysts of stock markets worldwide remain attracted to the IPO underpricing
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phenomenon.
Throughout the history of Indonesia‟s stock market since the reactivation of a
stock market by Government of the Republic of Indonesia from 1977 to 2020, there were
835 IPOs with 26 initial returns, 553 underpricing, 81 times overpricing have occurred
(TICMI, 2020), 153 IPOs where data were not recorded on the „closing price‟ (1977-1992),
11 IPO with no data of „closing price‟ (1994-1999), 11 IPO where data on the „IPO price‟
have not been found (1996-2005).
In the meantime, based on our analysis of 14 studies on the IPO underpricing
phenomenon on the Indonesian stock exchange (IDX) over the years 2000-2019, most
studies examined factors which impact underpricing (Astuti, 2020; Indriani & Marlia,
2014; Inkasari, 2019; Iryma Maygista, Indah Mustikowati, & Mardiana Firdaus, 2020;
Lestari, Hidayat, & Sulasmiyati, 2015; S. T. A. Manurung & Nuzula, 2019; Munawaroh,
2019; Nathan & Scobell, 2012; Sembiring, Rahmawati, & Kusumawati, 2018; Solida,
Luthan, & Sofriyeni, 2020; Sopiyan, 2019), comparison of the first day IPO closing price
with the company appraisal (Herawati, Achsani, Hartoyo, & Sembel, 2016; Satriyo, 2018),
and comparison of initial returns between stocks of the industrial sector (A. H.
Manurung, Juwono, & Siswanti, 2019).
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
IPO Underpricing phenomenon
In this analysis, the decision tree algorithm model was developed by combining
quantitative and qualitative methods for determining the IPO's underpricing rate and
identifying the key features of the underpricing phenomenon in the IPO. At the data
preparation stage, qualitative methods are performed by setting up
categories/space/subspace using the training data gathered to establish a classification
rule model. In addition, quantitative methods are used to create a model of decision tree
algorithm (Han, 2016). This research focuses on the 2017-2020 IPO actions data where the
Indonesian capital market had 195 IPO actions with initial return, as shown in Table 1
below.
Table 1. Initial return (IR) IPO actions in the 2017-2020 Indonesian capital market.
Year - Board Number of The average of Max IR (%) Min IR (%) Deviation
companies IR (%) Standard
of IR (%)
Tahun – Jumlah Rata-rata IR Max IR (%) Min IR (%) Standar
Papan Perusahaan (%) Deviasi IR
(%)
2017
Development 30 46.1% 86.7% -3.3% 28.0%
Board
Main Board 7 29.4% 87.1% -9.0% 39.0%
2018
Development 41 50.8% 70.0% -35.7% 25.1%
Board
Main Board 16 43.7% 70.0% -14.3% 24.5%
2019
Development 44 46.4% 70.0% -70.3% 30.6%
Board
Main Board 11 41.6% 70.0% -1.7% 26.2%
2020
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These data show that 182 IPO underpricings occurred during the research period,
where population data reflect all the activities on the Indonesian capital market. As
common knowledge IPO can be divided according to several categories, such as: IPO
activity, pricing, and IPO allocation (Ritter dan Welch (2002) in
As has already been pointed out, the study of previous IPO performance research in
pricing and allocation categories can be divided into (W. Perera & Kulendran, 2016): the
short-term underpricing‟phenomenon is a positive rate of return on the first day of
listing, in which the closing price is greater than the price of the first bid/issue prize, the
phenomenon of long-term underperformance means the acquisition of a negative rate of
return at a certain period of time with the sale price lower than the initial price, the
market 'hot issue' phenomenon is a short-term cyclical activity of 'underpricing,'
perceived to be a continuation of the short-term phenomenon of "underpricing.".
regarding its emphasis for research of short-term IPO performance, a brief description of
the short-term „underpricing‟ phenomenon of the IPO share is given. The IPO covers 3
directly involved parties, namely the issuer as the party that needs funds, the contractor
and investor as the fund supplier. In this situation, the underwriter shall take a stance
based on a 'firm commitment'. This means that the underwriter can purchase the entire
issue and then sell it at any risk, or "Best efforts" meaning that the issuer will assume the
loss equal to the negotiated fixed price, and that the issuer will have a "underwriting-
spread" to cover incurred costs.
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Among all the different theories listed above, they can be categorized as
'asymmetric' information (i.e. signalling, winner's curse, market feedback (book building),
agency, investment bankers monopsony power, bandwagon and ownership dispersion),
and 'Symmetrical' details, i.e. the lawsuit prevention hypothesis, the internet bubble and
the trading volume. These two categories require further clarification, which focuses on
'agency disputes and actions.'
offer price
offer size
oversubscription ratio
underwritten IPOs
Llsting delay
earnings
book value
leverage
Firm-specific profitability
Characterictis characteristics cash flow
firm size
original ownership
market sentiment
Baba & Sevil (2020) also explains that IPO underpricing is affected by factors
including company characteristics (size, profitability, profit rate) and offering
characteristics (number of shares offered, share of the IPO bid, IPO price, amount of funds
raised) and market sentiment (market performance before the IPO date).
Based on the analysis above, the predictor variables are measured because of (1)
the accessible information for potential investors and (2) the coverage of company
characteristics, offering characteristics and market characteristics.
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variable based on publications (BEI, 2020; TICMI, 2020). The data is then separated into
training data and data sets linearly. The training data is the IPO performance data before
the pandemic period 2017-2019 and the evaluation data are IPO performance data after
the 2020 pandemic.
We pre-processed the data by identifying each variable in the processed data set
before modelling and analysis.
Table 2. Variables for the analysis.
No Variables Definition of variables Classification
1. IPO_Perf IPO performance = (1st day opening 0 – (zero IR); 1 - (IR up to 44 %
(target) price-initial offer price)/initial offer underpricing; 2 - (IR > 44%
price underpricing; -1 - (overpricing
IR) – 44% is the mean IR from
data set training
2. Board Boards for listings on IPO performance 1 - (Main Board); 2 -
(Development Board); 3 -
(Acceleration Board)
3. Fund_R Funds raised Continuous (min-max)
4. Pct_IPO Shares sold = offered shares / issued Continuous (min-max
shares
5. Shares_Off The number of shares offered Continuous (min-max
6. Offer_P IPO offering price Continuous (min-max
7. List_date IPO date - converted to a quarter 1 - (Q1); 2 - (Q2); 3 - (Q3); 4 -
classification (Q4)
Analysis
For data analysis, the automotive model feature in the Rapidminer ver application.
9.8 001 is used to simulate a model with training data and to measure error to get the best
model with minimum errors, with performance is further checked by test data.
The auto model function is used to find the best decision tree algorithm model from
the 3 models available: decision tree (simple), random forest and gradient boosted tree. In
addition, the best model is used to create and use a predictive model for testing data and
to interpret the prediction results.
4. RESULTS
This study is to explain the IPO underpricing theory in the Indonesian capital
market during the Covid-19 pandemic, following the short-term IPO underpricing theory
framework that addresses the characteristics of issues, companies and markets (Perera
2016). In addition, a model of prediction with decision tree algorithms is developed to
deal with nonlinearity problems (Baba & Sevil, 2020; Han, 2016).
Descriptive Analysis
The descriptive statistics of the training data set are listed in Table 3 below.
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Table 3 illustrates that all training data sets can be assigned a classification value
according to their definition
Model Developments
The classification capacity of the constructed model is shown as a minimum error.
We divided it into 149 training data (IPO 2017-2019) and 46 test data from the 185 data
(IPO 2020 actions). The data collection for statistical training includes 115 IPO actions
2017-2019 on the “Development Board” and 34 IPO actions on the “Main Board”. The
correlation weights of each input variable to the target variable are as follows:
Figure 3. Correlation Weights of Input Variables to Target Variables (generated from Rapid Miner
data processing).
These results show that Fund R has the highest correlation weight to the target
variable IPO_Perf class followed by Offer_P, Shares_Off, Pct_IPO, Board and List_Date.
This provides an initial prediction of the established decision tree model that fits the
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From the illustration of the table above, the Decision Tree (simple) algorithm
produces minimal errors on all indicators of measured error, in particular when
compared to a generalized linear model (representing linear regression). We therefore
decided to use a (simple) algorithm model for the decision tree model.
Given that there was no IPO activity on the Acceleration Board in the Training
Dataset Period for 2017-2019, the decision tree model did not have the target classification
of the Acceleration Boards. Therefore the final model for the decision tree is shown in
Figure 4.
Figure 4. IPO Performance Prediction Model (generated from Rapid Miner data processing)
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Based on the final decision tree model, the root node of the model is the Fund-
Raised Index (Fund_R), meaning that the IPO performance is primarily determined by
the amount of funds raised by the issuer. If IPO action hits IDR 800 billion in fundraising,
investors have a significant chance to get an initial return of over 44%. Whereas, if the IPO
collected funds are greater than Rp. 800 billion, the listing board consideration is critical.
This means that if the IPO is listed on the Development Board, investors would have a
significant opportunity to gain an initial return of 44%. If the IPO is on the 'main board'
then investors are required to take into account the percentage of shares sold to the public
against all listed shares.
If publicly sold shares are less than 16 percent, investors should consider buying the
issuer's shares in the secondary market after the IPO, since the initial return on shares is
expected to be below the offering price ("overpriced").
Meanwhile, if shares sold to the public are > 16 percent, the initial return will be
determined by the number of shares offered to the public. This would lead to an initial
return of up to 44% if the amount of shares sold is over 24 billion shares.
When the model is tested on the 2020 IPO action test data, the error matrix is
structured as follows:
Table 5. Matrix Performance Model Error.
Prediction -1 0 1 2
Actual
-1 0
0 0
1 0 2 0 24
2 15
Note: 5 IPO actions on the 'acceleration board' in 2020 are unpredictable.
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of this study as they encourage the interest of junior researchers who are more interested
in machine learning than conventional statistical learning. However, the shift in the
interest of these junior researchers hopefully will not diminish their enthusiasm in
econometrics in general and financial econometrics in particular.
Limitations and Recommendations
Although this study shows that the simple decision tree algorithm can achieve
better predictive performance, it is suggested in future studies to extend the time for the
training model data set so that the model can better capture population behaviour. Input
variables can be added with an in-depth analysis of variable characteristics influencing
short-term IPO performance (supply characteristics, company characteristics and market
characteristics), as illustrated in Figure 2.
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