The determinants of dividend payout of industrial goods sector listed in Bursa Malaysia / Nur Hafiesha Che Ab Halim

Dividend puzzle is one of the heated issues in dividend topic among corporate finance or firms and also one of the topics that many researchers continue to investigate due to a lot of questions still unsolved since years ago. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between internal...

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Main Author: Che Ab Halim, Nur Hafiesha
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Language:English
Published: 2019
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spelling my-uitm-ir.937372024-04-17T03:38:41Z The determinants of dividend payout of industrial goods sector listed in Bursa Malaysia / Nur Hafiesha Che Ab Halim 2019 Che Ab Halim, Nur Hafiesha Dividends. Stock dividends. Dividend reinvestment Dividend puzzle is one of the heated issues in dividend topic among corporate finance or firms and also one of the topics that many researchers continue to investigate due to a lot of questions still unsolved since years ago. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between internal factors which include profitability, financial leverage, liquidity, and growth opportunities towards dividend payout of Industrial Goods Sectors that listed in Bursa Malaysia. This study employs a panel data analysis of 15 of Industrial Goods Firms listed in Bursa Malaysia. Fixed Effect model has been selected in this study by using STATA program. The sources of data are Thomson Reuters Eikon and Bursa Malaysia website based on yearly basis for financial year from 2007 to 2017 which included 165 observations. Based on the range data, this study is conducted based on highly debt firms (50% debt) in year 2017. Thus, this study shows that the independent variables which are profitability and growth opportunities have positive and significant relationship with dividend payout. Besides, liquidity also has positive relationship but insignificant with dividend payout. Meanwhile, financial leverage has negative insignificant with dividend payout of Industrial Goods Sector. Therefore, the findings from this study may be useful for future researchers and the firms’ management in order to help them deciding the dividend payout to shareholders and also could help shareholders making a good investment decision. 2019 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93737/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93737/1/93737.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu Faculty Of Business Management Mohamad, Zuraida
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
collection UiTM Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Mohamad, Zuraida
topic Dividends
Stock dividends
Dividend reinvestment
spellingShingle Dividends
Stock dividends
Dividend reinvestment
Che Ab Halim, Nur Hafiesha
The determinants of dividend payout of industrial goods sector listed in Bursa Malaysia / Nur Hafiesha Che Ab Halim
description Dividend puzzle is one of the heated issues in dividend topic among corporate finance or firms and also one of the topics that many researchers continue to investigate due to a lot of questions still unsolved since years ago. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between internal factors which include profitability, financial leverage, liquidity, and growth opportunities towards dividend payout of Industrial Goods Sectors that listed in Bursa Malaysia. This study employs a panel data analysis of 15 of Industrial Goods Firms listed in Bursa Malaysia. Fixed Effect model has been selected in this study by using STATA program. The sources of data are Thomson Reuters Eikon and Bursa Malaysia website based on yearly basis for financial year from 2007 to 2017 which included 165 observations. Based on the range data, this study is conducted based on highly debt firms (50% debt) in year 2017. Thus, this study shows that the independent variables which are profitability and growth opportunities have positive and significant relationship with dividend payout. Besides, liquidity also has positive relationship but insignificant with dividend payout. Meanwhile, financial leverage has negative insignificant with dividend payout of Industrial Goods Sector. Therefore, the findings from this study may be useful for future researchers and the firms’ management in order to help them deciding the dividend payout to shareholders and also could help shareholders making a good investment decision.
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author Che Ab Halim, Nur Hafiesha
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author_sort Che Ab Halim, Nur Hafiesha
title The determinants of dividend payout of industrial goods sector listed in Bursa Malaysia / Nur Hafiesha Che Ab Halim
title_short The determinants of dividend payout of industrial goods sector listed in Bursa Malaysia / Nur Hafiesha Che Ab Halim
title_full The determinants of dividend payout of industrial goods sector listed in Bursa Malaysia / Nur Hafiesha Che Ab Halim
title_fullStr The determinants of dividend payout of industrial goods sector listed in Bursa Malaysia / Nur Hafiesha Che Ab Halim
title_full_unstemmed The determinants of dividend payout of industrial goods sector listed in Bursa Malaysia / Nur Hafiesha Che Ab Halim
title_sort determinants of dividend payout of industrial goods sector listed in bursa malaysia / nur hafiesha che ab halim
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu
granting_department Faculty Of Business Management
publishDate 2019
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93737/1/93737.pdf
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