Generally, a firm's value indicates how well it has performed. Firms that perform will attract more investor trust to invest in their business. Therefore, this study aims investigate the factors determine of Malaysian plantation sector companies using Tobin's Q and several firm-specific variables. An empirical investigation was done measure influence each size, sales, leverage, return on assets...

This study analyzed the accounting information disclosure and dividend payout of listed pharmaceutical firm in Nigeria from 2016 to 2021. The specific objectives were to: Examine effect earnings per share on Nigeria; Assess Net Profit Margin Evaluate stock price following independent variables used: earning share, net profit margin while policy was used as dependent variables. Secondary sources...

Behavioral Finance aims to explain empirical anomalies by introducing investor psychology as a determinant of asset pricing. This study provides strong evidence that anomalous stock price behavior following earnings announcements is due to a representativeness bias. It investigates current and past earnings surprises and subsequent market reaction for listed US companies over the period 1983-19...

12 In this paper, we developed and estimated a model of the Thai firm during the crisis. Our results 13 indicate that firms with the highest debt-equity ratios suffered the steepest declines in earnings per 14 share during the crisis from the financial distressed costs. We take this result as strong evidence for 15 the credit channel. Surprisingly, firms with the largest market capitalizations ...

It still remains unclear whether the decision to outsource IT is governed by rule of efficiency or from institutional constraints imposed by the state and the professions in order to gain legitimacy through institutional isomorphism. Our analysis is based on a unique data set that contains all first-time decisions of publicly listed German firms to engage in large-scale IT outsourcing between 1...

For the third quarter, Adobe achieved record revenue of $260.9 million, compared to $222.9 million reported for the third quarter of fiscal 1998 and $245.9 million reported in the second quarter of fiscal 1999. This represents a 20.6% increase in year over year revenue growth when taking into consideration revenue from businesses divested in fiscal 1998. Operating profit for the third quarter w...

We estimate a standard human capital earnings model, augmented to allow for different firmspecific wage premia. The earnings of an individual depend on her human capital bundle and the earnings mark-up of the firm she is currently working for. We use linked employer-employee data from Norway which allows us to directly estimate the skill premium as a function of firm specific variables such as ...

This study intends to identify the determinants of corporate dividend policy followed in Bangladesh. The uses a firm-level panel data set 61 companies from eight major sectors DSE for ten years 2008 2017. Pearson correlation coefficient and backward elimination method multiple regression have been used find out results study. shows mixed relationship between per share ownership structure, reser...

This paper reports new finding on earnings response coefficients of banking firms on how information disclosed regarding (i) total earnings and (ii) fee earnings is associated with share price changes around the time of financial report releases. This paper extends to banking firms a widely used analysis of earnings response studies on non-banking firms. To obtain robust test results, we extend...

This study examines the company internal factors and macro-economic variables affecting stock prices in the Karachi Stock Exchange of Pakistan. Internal factors are earnings per share and dividend per share. The macro-economic variables are represented by the money supply, consumer price index, interest rates, and gross domestic product. A sample of 15 companies is selected from the financial s...