Empresas brasileiras: capital de giro, desempenho, gestão e valorização.

Abstract

This paper intends to contribute to the financial literature as it approaches the existing relation between the working capital management, the performance and investments for Brazilian companies. Unlikely previous studies, this paper focus on the part that the investment of internal resources released through the working capital management takes as the path, whereby one can understand a company's valuation and increase in performance. We started from a base-model developed by Aktas, Croci and Petmezas (2015), and the degree of internationalization was later added. Data of domestic (from 1996 to 2015) and international (from 2006 to 2015) Brazilian companies were used, both active and inactive on stock exchange BMF/Bovespa. To domestic and international Brazilian companies, the results indicate that the reduction of the capital management excess on the previous year is positively associated to the shares performance. On the subsequent period, only the reduction of the working capital of companies with positive excess of working capital are associated to a better shares performance, since the released capital can be managed towards another investments, and for the companies with negative excess, it is the increase of the working capital which is associated to the increase to the shares performance. One can infer also that there is an optimum level of working capital, and the firms who go towards this optimum level can increase their performance significantly. In respect of the distinct variable of the present study, the DOI (Degree of Internationalization), the results suggest that companies with excess of working capital, both positive and negative have a positive relation between the DOI and the performance, this relation is stronger regarding companies with positive excess of working capital.