Factors Affecting Share Prices of Banking sector of Pakistan
It is very important to understand the value of share prices as it will be beneficial for both investor as well as the company. By understanding those determinants that can effect the share price, the investor will be in a position to make various profitable investment decisions. Whereas, from the company’s point of view it helps to know about the Intrinsic value of company’s shares. The purpose of this research was to find out the impact of share price on banking sector in Pakistan, as it shows the positive correlation of leverage on share price of banking sector registered in Pakistan Stock Exchange. The data was extracted from the State bank of Pakistan official Website and from companies financial data starting from 2010 till 2017 of 20 companies in Banking sectors registered in Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). While share price have 4 control variables (Earning per Share, Dividend Yield, Return on Assets and Assets Growth) all the results shows low variation of share price on Banking sector in Pakistan. We used Simple regression analysis and the results shows the positive impact of earning per share variable that shows impact on share price while dividend yield has positive impact on share price, assets growth has positive impact on share price, and return on assets has positive impact on share price.