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Capital Structure Decisions and Corporate Performance: Does Firm’s Profitability Matter?

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Title Capital Structure Decisions and Corporate Performance: Does Firm’s Profitability Matter?
 
Creator Ghardallou, Wafa
 
Subject Debts to equity
Equity financing
Financial performance
Quantile regression
Tadawul stock exchange
 
Description 859-865
This study aims to investigate the relationship between financing decisions and firm performance. It particularly
investigates the heterogeneous effects of capital structure ratios on financial profitability. The study employs the Quantile
regression methodology on a sample of 120 non-financial companies listed on Tadawul stock exchange during the period
2017–2020. Financial performance was measured using return on assets, return on equities and Tobin’s Q variables in order
to assess accounting and market performance. Data on the various variables is obtained from the companies’ annual reports.
Quantile regression results show that debts to equity ratio hamper firms’ performance where as equity financing ratio
increases business profitability. Additionally, findings demonstrate that this relationship is nonlinear. Particularly, a debt to
equity ratio has a greater negative effect on performance of high-profitable firms. However, the positive effect of the equity
financing ratio seems to be higher in high profitable companies than low ones. These results would help managers of non
financial firms regarding optimal capital structure decisions. Indeed, managers of non-financial firms could use results of
this study as a benchmark to make efficient decisions related to the structure of the capital such as reducing the proportion of
debts in the capital and increasing the weight of equity financing. Particularly, enterprises in the early stages of
development, with lower profits reflected in return on assets, return on equities, and Tobin’s Q should carefully avoid debt,
whereas firms with big earnings are encouraged to raise their capital by issuing new shares in the financial market.
 
Date 2022-08-03T04:52:41Z
2022-08-03T04:52:41Z
2022-08
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0022-4456 (Print); 0975-1084 (Online)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/60249
https://doi.org/10.56042/jsir.v81i08.59697
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source JSIR Vol.81(08) [AUG 2022]