Third-year update on CVC programs’ potential impact on public stock price performance
Executives express a common concern when considering a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit: namely, market perception. Stock price is one potential sign of that perception, so two years ago we began studying the stock price of public companies with CVCs.
Last year’s analysis of US-based public corporations on the Global Corporate Venturing 2017 top 100 most active CVC list showed that, within our study, the median corporation’s stock price appreciated 42% more than the price of its listing index from…