In recent years, the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry has become the focus of
investment, and people's demand for medical treatment has no limit, so the industry's
prospects are infinitely bright. If a drug passes clinical trials, the company's stock price will
soar. Therefore, this study will select the pharmaceutical industry as the research object, and
study whether there is a relationship between the changes in operating performance before
and after the announcement of financial reports and the return on stock prices of listed counter
companies from 2019 to 2021. The empirical results show that:
I. Only in 2019, the total efficiency (TE) of " OTC companies" was significantly better than that of "listed companies" in the pharmaceutical industry. However, due to the
outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic after 2020, the TE of both types of companies has
declined, and the adverse impact of the epidemic on "OTC companies" is more
significant.
II. The stock prices of listed and OTC companies in the pharmaceutical industry presenting
their financial reports "one week before" can reflect or predict their performance,
especially in 2020 to 2021. Both the "Pure Efficiency (PE) Change Index" and the "Total
Efficiency (TE) Change Index" are significantly positively correlated with the "average
share price return in the week before and after the release of the financial report", and it
mainly occurs in the "listed company".