An Empirical Study on Capital Structure and Corporate Performance of Chinese Listed Companies

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahd Al-Duais

The relationship between level of debt and the companys performance remains an important unsolved issue in the field of financing. It is very important to know how Chinas listed companies manage their capital towards business growth. This paper investigates the impact of the capital structure on corporate performance of a sample of 711 listed companies on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in China in 2014. The results indicates that there is a positive relation between financial leverage and corporate performance as well as there is a positive impact that the mixture of long-term debt and short-term debt (using total debt). This would help decision maker in the companies to finance firms operation in the both periods. On the other hand, the short term debt has a negative relation and impact on corporate performance compared to the changing in firm size which cannot change in the profitability of firms.

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Atif Ghayas ◽  
Javaid Akhter

This study aims to empirically examine and analyze the impact of capital structure decision on the firm’s profitability by using a sample of 35 Indian pharmaceutical companies listed on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) during the period of 5 years from 2012 to 2016. Regression Analysis is used to measure the extent and nature of the relationship. Capital structure variables used in the study are ratio of long-term debt to total assets (LDA), ratio of short-term debt to total assets (SDA) and ratio of Total debt to total assets (DA) while profitability has been measure by Return on Equity (ROE). Firms Size (SIZE)and Salesgrowth(GROW) are also used as control variables. Results reveal a positive effect of SDA and DA on ROE, while a weak-to-no effect was found of LDA on ROE.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Md. Ibrahim Molla

The paper empirically investigates the relationship between capital structure and the performance of listed banks in Bangladesh using panel data over the period of five years from 2014-2018. To estimate the association between leverage level and bank performance the Panel Corrected Standard Error (PCSE) model is used in this study and the findings indicate that long term debt has a positive influence on the performance of banks which is measured in terms of ROA and ROE. This implies that long term debts are associated with the higher performance of banks listed in Bangladesh. The regression results also reveal that the capital structure component of total debt has no statistically significant impact on ROA, ROE and EPS but it has a significant positive impact on the performance of banks measured by price earning ratio. Furthermore, this analysis finds no relationship of long term debt and total debt with the EPS. These findings lead to conclude that capital structure has a weak to no influence on the performance of listed banks in Bangladesh. This paper is the first research attempt that investigates the impact of capital structure on the performance of all banks listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tristan Nguyen ◽  
Huy-Cuong Nguyen

<p>Our paper examines what impact capital structure has on firms’ performance in selected firms listed on HCMC Stock Exchange. The data is collected from 147 listed companies during the period from 2006 to 2014. The study not only checks the impact the level of leverage has on firms’ performance, which is found to be negative in this study, but it also uses the short-term and long-term debt ratios to see the effect of debt maturity. However, there is no difference whether it is short-term or long-term. Tangibility is found to be negative with a very high proportion on average. With the suggestion that companies might invest too much in fixed assets and there is a lack of efficiency, this could be the alert for firms to improve their management process. Size and growth are found to be positive, since larger firms have lower costs of bankruptcy and higher growth rates associate with higher performance. Moreover, the study also adds the effects of industry and macroeconomics, and the result shows a correlation between the two factors and firms’ performance.</p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loan T. Vu ◽  
Anh T. H. Vu ◽  
Thao T. P. Nguyen

This study is taken to describe the relationship between the levels of debt, dividend policy and the performance of firms listed in Vietnamese stock market. The dividend policy is proxied by the dividend yield while firm’s performance is measured by ROE, ROA, and P/E. The total number of observations is 552, collecting from 92 listed companies on Hochiminh Stock Exchange during 2012 and 2019. The analysis results from generalized least squares (GLS) models report that the choice of firm’s performance proxy affects the relationship between firm’s performance and leverage as well as dividend policy. While leverage has positive impact on ROE and ROA, it has negative impact on P/E. In contrast, dividend yield ratio is negatively correlated with ROA and P/E but positively correlated with ROE. However, the impact of debt levels on firm’s performance is independent with the choice of leverage proxy. The findings of this research are expected to provide better understanding about the connection between debt, dividend and performance of the firm that can support the managers to make relevant decisions.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-76
Author(s):  
Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad ◽  
Memoona Kanwal

This research work is based on the relationship that exists between the capital structure and performance of different sector's firms currently operating in the Pakistan. Capital structure decisions can be considered as the most important financial performance and risk management tools which are available to the companies' management. Capital structure can also play an important role in performance assessment, in performance management and in effective handling of ownership claims. The extensive use and heavy dependence on debt has exposed many companies to potential risk of declined performance and also to the risk of insolvency. This study analyzes the relationship between various capital structure indicators and dependence of financial performance of companies on these indicators using a broad sample covering 202 non-financial firms listed on Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) over the period of 1999-2012. The sample firms are divided into five sectors i.e. Textile, Chemical, Cement, Food and Fuel & Energy. Financial performance of firms is quantified by Return on Assets (ROE), Return on Equity (ROE), Price-Earnings ratio (PE) and Tobin's Q (TQ). The relationship between financial performance measures and capital structure measures i.e. total debt, short term debt and long term debt is estimated using GLS fixed and random effect model. Sector wise comparison shows that majority of the sectors have similar capital structure. The impact of capital structure on the financial performance is also similar across sectors with few variations. Overall the relationship is found to be negative among capital structure and firm performance measured by ROA, ROE and PE except TQ which is positively related to Long Term Debt to total Assets (LTDA). The result of industry wise comparison contributes significantly to the existing stream of knowledge. The results indicate that lower reliance on the debt financing improves the performance of the firm whereas dependence and exposure of debt financing reduce performance. The research can be useful for the management of companies in different sectors that want to improve their performance.


2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Freddy Iston Hasil Marbudi Pangaribuan

The aim of this research is to examine the effect of corporate governancet's internal mechanism that ls institutionii o*r"rriip, oi both firm performance and firm capital structure. To the extent, the moderating effect of managerial ownership on the relationship between institutional ownership,-fir* performance and capital structure wilt be examined as well.The sample of this research is drar,vn fro* companies within the big six family,owned business in Indonesia, which are listed at The Jakarta Stock Exchange fro* 1998 until 2005. Using the Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA),. the result shows that both institutional and managerial ownership fail to demonstrate the direct and moderated effect on both performance and capital structure. These findings suggest that the froil of economic, social and political circumstances create the "short term-focused" toward investment return. Moreover, the slow achiqement of collusion, corruption, and nepotism (KI< I) eradication has resulted in sudden-withdrawal of investor's investment. Hence, the internal control mechanism of corporate governance which is long-term focused and associated with KKI{ eradi cation cannot b e su cc es sfully impl em ent ed.Keywords: Institutional ownership, managerial ownership, performance,capital structure


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Hishan S Sanil ◽  
Ahmad Amirul Arsyad bin Noraidi ◽  
Suresh Ramakrishnan

This research is conducted to determine the impact of different firm sizes on the relationship between capital structure determinants and leverage among listed consumer product firms in Malaysia from year 2006 to 2015. All data was taken from annual report of the companies by using DataStream. In 2015, 130 firms were listed in Bursa Malaysia under the consumer product sector. However, only 108 firms were observed as several firms had insufficient data. This study uses the dependent variable of debt ratios i.e. short-term debt, long-term debt and total debt. The independent variables used are firm size, profitability, tangibility, liquidity, growth, non-tax debt shield and business risk. Those results were obtained by applying Pooled OLS and Fixed Effect Analysis. The main finding of this study is that different firm sizes will affect the relationship between capital structure determinants and leverage. The Fixed Effect analysis revealed that all determinants were significant across all types firm sizes. Furthermore, non-tax debt shield had the largest impact to all types of leverage across different firm sizes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Sufian Radwan Al-Manaseer

This study aims to analyze the relationship between capital structure and stock returns of Jordanian banks listed on the Amman Stock Exchange from 2009 to 2018. The study sample is composed of 13 commercial banks in Jordan. The e-views program is used to conduct the statistical analysis of study variables. Initially, a simple linear regression analysis is conducted to determine the impact of capital structure as measured by financial leverage on stock returns and vice versa. Then, several control variables are added: growth in assets, liquidity, firm size, and profitability. This study has found that growth, capital structure, and profitability have a positive impact on stock returns. By contrast, liquidity and firm size have a negative impact on stock returns. Stock returns and firm size have a positive impact on capital structure, whereas liquidity, growth, and profitability have a negative impact on capital structure.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Shehu Usman Hassan ◽  
Joseph Aitimon

This study assesses the impact of capital structure on investment opportunity growth, using listed pharmaceutical firms in Nigeria. The main objective of the study is to ascertain the level to which capital structures influences the investment opportunity growth of listed pharmaceutical firms in Nigeria. The methodology employed is the use of secondary data and the ex-post facto research design. The population of the study is all 7 pharmaceutical firms listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange as at 31st December, 2013. The study used regression as a tool of analysis. Findings show that Short term debt, total debt and performance were found to have significant, negative and strong effect on investment growth opportunity of Listed Pharmaceutical firms in Nigeria, while long term debt have no effect on investment growth opportunity of Listed Pharmaceutical firms in Nigeria, within the sturdy period. The study recommends that pharmaceutical firms should maintain a minimal level of short term debt because tying down too much of it current assets will reduce investment opportunity, also the management of listed Pharmaceutical firm should increase the level at which the organization uses long term debt to finance its business activities, as this may go a long way in increasing the investment opportunity potentials of the organizations, we also recommend that mmanagement should reduce the combination of its short term debt and long term debt and channel such to a highly profitable investment so that so that it will encourage them to invest more in other business opportunity that will bring more fortune to the business and shareholders at largemore room.


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