Is a Conservative Company More Wanted?
Comparative Analysis of the Stock Performance of Low-Debt Firms and High-Debt Firms in Indonesia
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.201126.004How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Stock performance, low-debt firm, high-debt firm
- Abstract
Debt can increase firms value in the view of investor, but it can also decrease firms value in their view. This study aims to test whether there are performance differences of low debt firms with the high debt firms. The population in this study is all of manufacturing company listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2009-2016. This study uses independent sample t-test to analys performance differences of 355 low-debt firm and 277 high-debt firm. The results showed a significant difference between PER and PBV of low-debt firms with PER and PBV of high-debt firms. Based on the value of Mean Rank, the low-debt firm higher than the high-debt firm, so otherwise, the stock of the low-debt firm is more wanted than high-debt firms.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ely Siswanto AU - Nur Rochmad Jufri PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/27 TI - Is a Conservative Company More Wanted? BT - Proceedings of the 5th Padang International Conference On Economics Education, Economics, Business and Management, Accounting and Entrepreneurship (PICEEBA-5 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 24 EP - 29 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.201126.004 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.201126.004 ID - Siswanto2020 ER -