A possible adverse effect of needing to issue new equity in the future

This research develops a model of how a need to issue new equity in the future can have an adverse affect on a stock's current price, value, and beta. In particular, if the market error in pricing a stock is positively correlated with the return on the market portfolio of all assets, losses from having to issue equity in the future at a distressed price will result in the stock having a higher beta and a lower current market value. To avoid this situation, corporations are motivated to hold greater financial slack.