Research Paper
Year: 2021 | Month: July | Volume: 8 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 161-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20210722
Analysis of the Effect of Financial Performance, Company Size on Stock Prices with Dividend Policy as Moderating Variable in Pharmaceutical Companies Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange 2013-2019
Watikah Sururi1, Idhar Yahya1, Erwin Abubakar1
1Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Business at Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Watikah Sururi
ABSTRACT
Financial instrument shares as part-ownership rights of a company which is evidence of or participation in a company. This study analyzes the effect of profitability, solvency, activity liquidity, and company size on pharmaceutical companies listed on the Indonesian stock exchange for 2013 – 2019. This study will also examine the dividend policy variable used as the moderating variable in the research model.
The population is pharmaceutical companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2013 – 2019. All populations in this study were used as research samples of as many as nine companies. Moreover, the number of observations used was 63 observations. The type of data used is secondary data and the data analysis technique used in Panel Data Regression Analysis and Interaction Moderating Test with the help of EViews10 software.
This study indicates that at alpha five percent, profitability and firm size have a significant positive effect on stock prices. In contrast, solvency, liquidity, and activity ratios have no significant effect on stock prices. This study also shows that dividend policy can strengthen the influence of solvency and liquidity on stock prices. However, dividend policy cannot moderate profitability, activity, firm size on stock prices.
Keywords: Profitability, solvency, liquidity, activity, company size, dividend policy, stock price.
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