The Effect of Financial Micro Factors on Stock Prices: Special Reference to the Manufacturing Sector in the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE)

dc.contributor.authorNishanthi, W.P.L.
dc.contributor.authorBandara, R.M.S.
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-17T08:14:42Z
dc.date.available2017-02-17T08:14:42Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe objective of the study was to identify the effect of selected micro variables on the stock prices of selected manufacturing companies listed in Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE). Researcher used the secondary data which was collected from the annual reports of selected companies for the period of 5 years. The sample of 29 companies was selected for this study representing manufacturing sector entities. In this study, Return on Equity, Book Value per Share, Earnings Per Share, Price Earnings Ratio, Dividend Per Share, Dividend Yield, Firm Size, and Financial Leverage were used as independent variables with the Stock Prices as the dependent variable. The data have been analyzed by using descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis to find out the effect of the micro variables on the stock prices. According to the results of the overall analysis, there was significant impact of book value per share, dividend per share, dividend yield, firm size and financial leverage on the stock prices. Further, it was identified that there was an insignificant impact of return on equity, earnings per share, price earnings ratio on the stock prices. According to the final result majority of financial micro factors significantly affect to the stock prices.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNishanthi, W.P.L. and Bandara, R.M.S. 2016. The Effect of Financial Micro Factors on Stock Prices: Special Reference to the Manufacturing Sector in the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE). In Proceedings of the Undergraduates Research Conference - 2016, 11th January 2017, Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2550- 2611
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/16464
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Accountancy, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lankaen_US
dc.subjectFinancial micro factorsen_US
dc.subjectStock pricesen_US
dc.subjectManufacturing sectoren_US
dc.titleThe Effect of Financial Micro Factors on Stock Prices: Special Reference to the Manufacturing Sector in the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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