The Effect of Financial Leverage and Market Size on Stock Returns on the Karachi Stock Exchange

The Effect of Financial Leverage and Market Size on Stock Returns on the Karachi Stock Exchange
Author: Sadaf Mustafa
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Total Pages: 7
Release: 2017
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This paper studies the effect of financial leverage and market size of selected stocks on stock returns. Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression models were used to test the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. The leverage of the selected sector was estimated from the Annual Financial reports covering a period of twelve years from 2014 to 2015 non-financial sectors listed in Karachi Stock Exchange. Furthermore, stock index prices of the selected stocks between 2004-2015 for non-financial sector are used to calculate stock return. Capital structure decisions are very important for any firm because they have a direct impact on firm value as well as shareholder's wealth. The positives or negatives of these decisions determine the future value of any business. Some studies discussed multiple outcomes or relation between stock return and leverage. Some studies reveal positive relationship between them, some review show negative outcomes and some has blended results. The study concluded that there is statistically significant direct relationship between size which is proxy of market capitalization and stock return (100 index prices). However, there is feeble and inverse relationship between financial leverage and stock return, and this relationship is not significant, so there is no statistically significant relationship between financial leverage and shareholders return.

Size, Leverage and Stocks Returns

Size, Leverage and Stocks Returns
Author: Faisal Khan
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Total Pages: 9
Release: 2014
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The theme of this study is to examine the effect of size on the basis of market capitalization and leverage with high and low debt-to-equity ratios on identified portfolios required rate of returns listed at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Multivariate regression has been used to identify the relationship among market premium, size premium, debt-to-equity premium and portfolio returns. The sample has been selected from 21 sectors consisting 200 listed-Pakistani firms for the period of January 2001 to December 2007. The p-value at 95% confidence level shows the relationship with CAPM and the size premium is positive and significant related to portfolio returns (P1 to P5), while the leverage premium (DER premium) is positively insignificant. It has been observed that the firms with high market capitalization outperform the firms with low market capitalization. The proposed multi-factor model increased the explanatory power of size premium by almost 40% at P1; the value of R2 indicated that the contribution of size premium was high as compared to the leverage premium. Therefore the security analysts, institutional investors, fund managers and other stakeholders should consider the size premium (SMB) as an important factor for determinant of required rate of returns.

Corporate Social Performance, Financial Performance and Market Value Behavior

Corporate Social Performance, Financial Performance and Market Value Behavior
Author: Kashif Hamid
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Release: 2017
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This specific study is based on the slack resource theory, good management theory, singling theory and agency theory. Moreover, this paper estimates an interactive equation structural model, based on above discussed theories that relates corporate financial performance (CFP), corporate social performance (CSP), and market performance (MP) regarding to the firm's share value and relative debt level. The relationship of corporate social performance, financial performance, market value of the share and financial leverage is tried to justify. In this particular study, 166 listed companies on Karachi Stock Exchange from textile sector, chemical sector, cement sector and the tobacco sector are taken. The observations are taken for the entire period of 2005 and 2006 from the published resources of state bank of Pakistan. In aggregate, the results of the study conclude that corporate social performance (CSP) has no effect on financial performance (CFP) under slack resources theory and good management theory. It is obvious from the results that CSP has negative effect on the market value of the share but no relationship to D/E behavior of the firm, significantly. In addition, it is also shown that CFP does not have mediating effect in between the CSP and market value of the share and also in between the CSP and debt level of the firm. This negative relationship indicates that there exists an agency problem. Moreover, the investors do not have the same level of information as the information is captured by the management about the company affairs. In addition, the debt singling hypothesis indicates that the further incorporation of debt into capital structure should influence the behavior of the investor, regarding to the investment in the shares positively, but due to information asymmetry, it is negative. This study further provides the room to test the model of effect of CSP on stock returns in a portfolio construction.

Impact of Leverages on Share Price

Impact of Leverages on Share Price
Author: Arsalan Iqbal
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Total Pages: 5
Release: 2017
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This paper examines the impact of different leverage measures on the share price of Cement Sector in Pakistan Stock Exchange. The panel-data approach of fixed effect & random effect is used during the period of 2005 to 2015. To achieve the purpose of research share price is considered as a dependent variable. The results indicate that debt ratio and degree of financial leverage is negatively determining the share price while size has significant positive impact on the share. Debt to equity ratio is insignificant in effecting share price.

Impact of Capital Structure on Stock Return in the Context of Oil & Gas Sector of Pakistan

Impact of Capital Structure on Stock Return in the Context of Oil & Gas Sector of Pakistan
Author: Sarmad Ali
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Total Pages: 22
Release: 2017
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Capital structure has central importance to evaluate the overall return of the firms, and it is more important to know that whether the stock return are sensitive to change in capital structure. This study investigates the impact of capital structure on stock return in the context of oil and gas sector of Pakistan. For this purpose the analysis is conducted on 10 oil and gas companies operating in Pakistan on the basis of availability of data over the period of 2005 to 2014. To examine the impact, stock return is taken as a dependent variable and debt to equity, financial leverage as independent variables. A simple correlation and regression models are used to test the results. This study concluded that the variation in capital structure does affect the stock return of oil and gas companies in Pakistan. Furthermore, debt to equity ratio and financial leverage positively affect stock return.