The determinants of profitability: evidence from Malaysian property and contruction companies / Nur Husna Mohamed Amin

Parallel with the title, this study attempts to examine the determinants of profitability based on Malaysia property and construction companies. These studies investigate 90 property and construction companies listed in Bursa Malaysia. The samples in this study are included to the availability of pu...

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Main Author:	Mohamed Amin, Nur Husna
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Investment capital formation speculation
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93738/1/93738.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.937382024-04-17T03:40:22Z The determinants of profitability: evidence from Malaysian property and contruction companies / Nur Husna Mohamed Amin 2014 Mohamed Amin, Nur Husna Investment, capital formation, speculation Parallel with the title, this study attempts to examine the determinants of profitability based on Malaysia property and construction companies. These studies investigate 90 property and construction companies listed in Bursa Malaysia. The samples in this study are included to the availability of published financial statement in Osiris Database during the period of 2004 to 2013. The observation in this study is 900 observations and the data has been analyzed by using panel data analysis. In this study, the researcher used Random Effect (RE) regression as the last regression analysis. This study used return on assets (ROA) to measure profitability of company; debt to equity ratio to measure leverage; log assets to measure firms’ size, current ratio to measure liquidity and Consumer price index (CPI) to measure inflation rate. For overall, the result showed that the leverage and liquidity significant with profitability. Leverage indicates negative relationship with profitability but for liquidity has positive relationship. The positive insignificant relationship is found between firm sizes. For macroeconomics aspects variables of inflation rate found that positive relationship and not significant. These result also suggest that the company must hold more liquidity asset and. In addition, the company must reduce the level of external financing for new project in future in order can lead to higher company profitability. 2014 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93738/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93738/1/93738.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu Faculty Of Business Management Affandi, Salwani
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spellingShingle	Investment capital formation speculation Mohamed Amin, Nur Husna The determinants of profitability: evidence from Malaysian property and contruction companies / Nur Husna Mohamed Amin
description	Parallel with the title, this study attempts to examine the determinants of profitability based on Malaysia property and construction companies. These studies investigate 90 property and construction companies listed in Bursa Malaysia. The samples in this study are included to the availability of published financial statement in Osiris Database during the period of 2004 to 2013. The observation in this study is 900 observations and the data has been analyzed by using panel data analysis. In this study, the researcher used Random Effect (RE) regression as the last regression analysis. This study used return on assets (ROA) to measure profitability of company; debt to equity ratio to measure leverage; log assets to measure firms’ size, current ratio to measure liquidity and Consumer price index (CPI) to measure inflation rate. For overall, the result showed that the leverage and liquidity significant with profitability. Leverage indicates negative relationship with profitability but for liquidity has positive relationship. The positive insignificant relationship is found between firm sizes. For macroeconomics aspects variables of inflation rate found that positive relationship and not significant. These result also suggest that the company must hold more liquidity asset and. In addition, the company must reduce the level of external financing for new project in future in order can lead to higher company profitability.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Bachelor degree
author	Mohamed Amin, Nur Husna
author_facet	Mohamed Amin, Nur Husna
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title	The determinants of profitability: evidence from Malaysian property and contruction companies / Nur Husna Mohamed Amin
title_short	The determinants of profitability: evidence from Malaysian property and contruction companies / Nur Husna Mohamed Amin
title_full	The determinants of profitability: evidence from Malaysian property and contruction companies / Nur Husna Mohamed Amin
title_fullStr	The determinants of profitability: evidence from Malaysian property and contruction companies / Nur Husna Mohamed Amin
title_full_unstemmed	The determinants of profitability: evidence from Malaysian property and contruction companies / Nur Husna Mohamed Amin
title_sort	determinants of profitability: evidence from malaysian property and contruction companies / nur husna mohamed amin
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu
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The determinants of profitability: evidence from Malaysian property and contruction companies / Nur Husna Mohamed Amin

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