The determinants of dividend policy: evidence from industrial product sector in Malaysia / Mohamad Aswan Sa’abar

Dividend policy involves extremely important financial decisions which serve as basis of numerous theories. However, these theories have been developed in different fields, and according to some evidence this policy remains as kind of dilemma and no general consensus to what factors influence the po...

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Main Author:	Sa’abar, Mohamad Aswan
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	Dividends Stock dividends Dividend reinvestment
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93670/1/93670.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.936702024-04-11T23:50:15Z The determinants of dividend policy: evidence from industrial product sector in Malaysia / Mohamad Aswan Sa’abar 2015 Sa’abar, Mohamad Aswan Dividends. Stock dividends. Dividend reinvestment Dividend policy involves extremely important financial decisions which serve as basis of numerous theories. However, these theories have been developed in different fields, and according to some evidence this policy remains as kind of dilemma and no general consensus to what factors influence the policy actually in financial cycles of corporation. The aim of this paper is to examine the factors determining dividend represented by Dividend per share for listed companies in Industrial Product Sector in Malaysia. In this study, we run a regression model and used a panel data covering the period of 2004 and 2013 for 107 companies listed in Bursa Malaysia. In this paper, the impact of liquidity, profitability, leverage and size of firm on divided per share of Industrial Product Sector is investigated. From the result of the study, we found liquidity and profitability are positively significant to dividend per share. However, leverage and size of firm are negatively significant to dividend per share. 2015 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93670/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93670/1/93670.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu Faculty Of Business Management Affandi, Salwani
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description	Dividend policy involves extremely important financial decisions which serve as basis of numerous theories. However, these theories have been developed in different fields, and according to some evidence this policy remains as kind of dilemma and no general consensus to what factors influence the policy actually in financial cycles of corporation. The aim of this paper is to examine the factors determining dividend represented by Dividend per share for listed companies in Industrial Product Sector in Malaysia. In this study, we run a regression model and used a panel data covering the period of 2004 and 2013 for 107 companies listed in Bursa Malaysia. In this paper, the impact of liquidity, profitability, leverage and size of firm on divided per share of Industrial Product Sector is investigated. From the result of the study, we found liquidity and profitability are positively significant to dividend per share. However, leverage and size of firm are negatively significant to dividend per share.
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author	Sa’abar, Mohamad Aswan
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title	The determinants of dividend policy: evidence from industrial product sector in Malaysia / Mohamad Aswan Sa’abar
title_short	The determinants of dividend policy: evidence from industrial product sector in Malaysia / Mohamad Aswan Sa’abar
title_full	The determinants of dividend policy: evidence from industrial product sector in Malaysia / Mohamad Aswan Sa’abar
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The determinants of dividend policy: evidence from industrial product sector in Malaysia / Mohamad Aswan Sa’abar

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