The Impact of Firm Specific Factors on Capital Structure

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Mehtap Öner
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Total Asset ◽  
Debt Ratio ◽  
Growth Opportunities ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Total Debt ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
The Impact

The main aim of this study is to analyze the impact of firm specific factors on corporate capital structure decisions of firms. The analysis is based on the year end observations of 100 firms which are among the top 1000 industrial enterprises listed on Borsa Istanbul for the period 2005-2011. By using panel data methodology, five explanatory variables: tangibility, profitability, firm size, non-debt tax shields and growth opportunities are evaluated as the firm specific determinants of capital structure decisions. The leverage ratio which is the dependent variable of the analysis is used as the proxy of firms' capital structure. In order to test whether crucial results are robust to alternative leverage definitions, this study measures leverage as the firm's total debt to total asset and long term debt to total asset ratios by focusing both on book and market based measures. The major findings of the study with respect to financing decisions of firms provide significant and positive impact of tangibility on long term debt ratio, however it turns out to be inverse for total debt ratio. In addition, it is found that profitable firms tend to have lower leverage; and larger companies tend to have higher debt ratios compared to small ones. What is more, evidence support that firms with greater growth opportunities and non-debt tax shield reveal inverse relation with debt level. Except the impact of growth opportunities which is only significant for market based leverage ratios, the findings for all other variables are robust for different definitions of leverage.

scholarly journals Impact Of Firm Specific Factors On Capital Structure Decision: An Empirical Study Of Albanian Firms.

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anila Çekrezi
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Balance Sheets ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Natural Logarithm ◽  
Total Debt ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
The Impact

This paper attempts to explore the impact of firm specific factors on capital structuredecision for a sample of 65 non- listed firms, which operate in Albania, over the period2008-2011.In this paper are used three capital structure measures ; short –term debt tototal assets (STDA), long- term debt to total assets (LTDA) and total debt to total assets(TDTA) as dependent variables and four dependent variables: tangibility(TANG),liquidity (LIQ), profitability(ROA=return on assets) and size (SIZE). The investigationuses panel data procedure and the data are taken from balance sheets and include onlyaccounting measures on the firm’s leverage. This study found that tangibility (the ratio offixed assets to total assets), liquidity (the ratio of current assets to current liabilities)profitability (the ratio of earnings after taxes to total assets) and size (natural logarithm oftotal assets) have a significant impact on leverage. Also empirical evidence reveals asignificant negative relation of ROA to leverage and a significant positive relation ofSIZE to leverage. And the second objective of this study is to identify the impact ofindustry classification on firm’s leverage, using a dummy variable for the trade sector. Soone of the hypothesis tested is if financial leverage is independent of industryclassification. Results reveal that long term debt to total assets and total debt to totalassets ratios are significantly different across Albanian industries.

scholarly journals Capital Structure and Bank Performance: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Md. Ibrahim Molla
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Bank Performance ◽  
Total Debt ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

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.

scholarly journals Determinants of Capital Structure within the Context of Corporate Governance in Egypt

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanaa A. El-Habashy
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Emerging Economy ◽  
Managerial Ownership ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Capital Structure

This study aims to investigate the characteristics of corporate governance that impact the capital structure decisions in listed firms in Egypt, to test the efficiency of the research results conducted in the developed Western countries in an emerging economy. A sample of 240 observations from the most active non-financial companies collected in the period 2009-2014 was used for hypothesis testing. Multiple regression models (OLS) were used for data analysis. Seven variables are used in measuring the attributes of corporate governance; they are the managerial ownership, institutional shareholding, shares owned by a large block, board size, board composition, separation of CEO/Chair positions and audit type. Four ratios were calculated for measuring the capital structure, they are long-term and short-term debt to assets, total debt to assets and debt to equity. The results suggest that corporate governance attributes have a significant impact on the capital structure decisions of listed Egyptian companies. In addition, firm-specific factors such as profitability, tangibility, growth opportunities, corporate tax, firm size and non-debt tax shields influence the choice of capital structure in Egypt. The results showed the same relationship with what was obtained in developed Western countries. The paper offers some contribution in the literature and helps to understand the impact of corporate governance on Egypt's capital structure as an emerging economy.

scholarly journals Capital Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from Malaysian Public Listed Plantation Companies

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Kim Foong Jee ◽  
Jia En Joanne Ngui ◽  
Pei Pei Jessica Poh ◽  
Wai Loon Chan ◽  
Yet Siang Wong
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Total Debt ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the relationship between capital structure and performance of firms. The study is confined to plantation sector companies in Malaysia and is based on a sample of 39 firms which listed in Bursa Malaysia for the period from 2009 to 2019. This study uses two performance measures which are ROA and ROE as the dependent variable. Besides, the capital structure measures are the short-term debt, long-term debt, total debt and firm growth, which as the independent variables. Size will be the control variable in this study. Moreover, a fixed-effect panel regression analysis has been used to analyse the impact of capital structure on firm performance. The results indicate that firm performance, which is in term of ROA, have an insignificant relationship with short-term debt (STD) and long-term debt (LTD). For the total debt (TD) and growth, there is a significant relationship with ROA. However, for the performance measured by ROE, it has an insignificant relationship with short-term debt (STD), long-term debt (LTD) and total debt (TD). Furthermore, there is a significant relationship between the growth and the performance firms from plantation sector in Malaysia.

scholarly journals Determinant of Capital structure of Nepalese hydropower companies

Pravaha ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-158
Author(s):  
Prem Lal Rajbanshi
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Regression Coefficients ◽  
Regression Equations ◽  
Debt Ratio ◽  
Tax Shield ◽  
Total Debt ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Debt Tax Shield ◽  
Size Variable

This study examines the effect of profitability, liquidity, size, tangibility and tax shield on capital structure of Nepalese Hydropower Companies. Debt ratio and long term debt to total assets ratio are taken as dependent variable and Profitability, liquidity, size, tangibility and tax shield are as independent variable. The study reveals that tangibility and non debt tax shield are positively influence the total debt where as profitability and liquidity are negatively influence on the total debt decision of the Nepalese Hydropower Companies. The regression coefficients for size are neither consistent nor statistically insignificant in all regression equations indicating that size variable is not the major factor of determinant of total debt as well as long term debt.

scholarly journals The Capital Structure and It’s Impact on the Profitability of the FMCG Companies in India – A Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Amalesh Patra ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Book Value ◽  
Coverage Ratio ◽  
Total Debt ◽  
Lm Test ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Capital Structure

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the capital structure on the profitability of the companies under the FMCG sector listed in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India. The sample of 10 companies over 14 years from 2007 to 2020 is considered in this study. To examine the impact of capital structure on the profitability, Total Debt to Total Assets (TDTA) Debt- Equity (DE), Interest Coverage Ratio (ICR) consider as the independent variables, Price to Book Value Ratio (PBVR) and Growth (GROW) considered as the control variables and Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) considered as dependent variable (profitability). To fulfil the objective of the study Pearsons' Correlation has been conducted for testing the Collinearity, Shapiro- Wilk test has been run for normality test of the variables, to test the Stationary Hadri LM test, Kao and Pedroni test for cointegration test and to choose the appropriate model Hausman test and finally, for the result, I run Fixed Effect Model. The result of the Regression analysis showed that Total Debt to Total Assets (TDTA), Debt- Equity (DE), Interest Coverage Ratio (ICR), and Price to Book Value are the factors that have an impact on the Profitability (ROCE) of the company. The empirical result also suggests that total debt to Total Assets (TDTA), Interest Coverage Ratio (ICR), and Price to Book Value of the company have a positive impact but Debt -Equity has a negative impact on the ROCE

scholarly journals Impact of Capital Structure on Firm’s Performance: Focusing on Non-financial Listed Egyptian Firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Sakr ◽  
Amina Bedeir
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Total Debt ◽  
Significant Negative Impact ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Measure Of Performance ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of capital structure decisions on the performance of the firm. The investigation has been performed using a data of 62 listed non-financial Egyptian firms over a period of fourteen years from 2003-2016. This study used two measures for performance the dependent variable which are ROA and ROE, the most common used measures agreed upon on the majority of previous studies. Whereas, for the independent variable “the capital structure, the study uses the three measures of capital structure which are total debt to total assets (TD), total short-term debt to total assets (STD), and total long-term debt to total assets (LTD). The results showed when using ROA as a measure of performance, a significant negative impact of capital structure (TD, STD, and LTD) exists; while in case of using ROE as a measure of performance, there’s a significant negative impact of capital structure only when using STD, otherwise a positive significant impact of capital structure exist.

scholarly journals The Impact of Different Firm Sizes on Capital Structure Determinants Among Listed Consumer Product Firms In Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Hishan S Sanil ◽  
Ahmad Amirul Arsyad bin Noraidi ◽  
Suresh Ramakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Fixed Effect ◽  
Consumer Product ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Effect Analysis ◽  
Total Debt ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

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.

scholarly journals CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND BANK PERFORMANCE OF ISLAMIC AND COMMERCIAL IN YEMEN

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Samer Ahmed Ali Assirri ◽  
C.K. Hebbar
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Bank Performance ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Total Debt ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to examine the impact of capital structure on bank performance. This research verified the existence of several relationships between capital structure as measured by LAR, EAR, and Total Debt ratio on bank’s performance as measured by ROA and ROE, EPS, and NPM. Using the panel data of bank from 2010 to 2019, In Islamic banks , the results of the present study revealed that the contributions of the capital structure to ROA were significant. This result was in line with the findings of the past studies. For instance, El-Chaarani and El-Abiad (2019) found that positive and significant impacts of short-term debt and total debt on the return on equity of the banking sector in Middle East region, a negative and significant impacts of short-term debt and total debt on the return on assets, and a positive impact of long-term debt on the return on assets ratio. In commercial banks sector the regression analysis revealed that the contributions of the three independent variables to the EPS were non-significant. Also, the contributions of the total debt and LAR to the independent variables ROE were significant. In contrast, the contribution of the EAR to the independent variable ROE was non-significant. Moreover, the contribution of the LAR to NPM was significant. Also, the contributions of the EAR and the total debt to NPM were non-significant. Furthermore, the contributions of the LAR and EAR to ROA were significant. In contrast, the contribution of the total debt to ROA was non-significant. In general, the contributions of the LAR and EAR to ROA were significant.

scholarly journals The determinants of capital structure: The case of long-term debt constraint for Jordanian firms

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rami Zeitun ◽  
Gary Gang Tian
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Credit Policy ◽  
Growth Opportunities ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Gulf Crisis ◽  
Banking Credit ◽  
The Capital Structure

This paper contributes to the capital structure literature by investigating the determinants of capital structure of Jordanian companies with the constraint of inadequate long-term debt as their source of financing and regional risk. We firstly document that Jordanian companies mostly depend on short-term debt, as a result of the banking credit policy that promotes short-term debt. Our results suggest that the level of gearing in Jordanian firms is positively related to size, tangibility, and earning volatility, and negatively correlated to profitability, the level of growth opportunities, liquidity and stock market activities. The level of gearing measured by short-term debt is, however, negatively correlated to tangibility. The Gulf Crisis between 1990 and 1991 is also found to have a significant but positive impact on Jordanian corporate leverage. We conclude that the capital structure decision with inadequate long-term debt access is influenced more strongly by factors such as Stock‟s Market activity (SMA).

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