COMPARING CONNECTION BETWEEN STOCK PRICE & DIVIDEND POLICY IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR: PAKISTAN EVIDENCE

Muhammad Amin and Muhammad Rehan
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Muhammad Amin: Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan. Author-Name: ALVI, Jahanzaib
Muhammad Rehan: Institute of Social Sciences, Gaziosmanpasa University Tokat, Turkey.

Studii Financiare (Financial Studies), 2021, vol. 25, issue 3, 56-70

Abstract: The paper establishes if dividend policy is a trustworthy indicator for the investors to predict a company's future growth in value to maximize their returns on their portfolios. The analysis technique used is cross-sectional regression analysis since the research focuses on various companies with numerous variables under a period of ten years. The study was conducted several times, with all companies together. Private companies and then public companies, individually, to see if the dividend policy has the same impact on the stock prices for both types of corporations. The results show that although Dividend Pay-out Ratio itself doesn't have a relationship with the stock price, the Dividend Yield of the company has a significant relationship with Share Price. Mixed results have been witnessed in result of data analysis from control variables. Although Leverage showed a significant relationship with the dependent variable when all companies were assessed altogether, it did not show any significance individually when the connections were analysed separately within public and private companies. On the other hand, Growth did not establish a significant relationship with share price volatility in the complete result; it had a significant one in the private companies' works. The study supports the fact that dividend policy does not necessarily have significance in determining share price changes for a sample of firms listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange.

Keywords: share price volatility; debt-to-equity; pay-out-ratio; public company; private company Pages: 56-70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G30 G38 G39 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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