The Effects of Financial Performance on Stock Returns: Evidence of Machine and Heavy Equipment Companies in Indonesia

Abstract

This study was made to determine the effect of Current Ratio (CR), Total Assets Turnover (TAT), Return on Assers (ROA), Debt to Equity Ratio (DER) on stock returns in the machinery and heavy equipment sub-sector companies listed on the Stock Exchange Indonesia (IDX) in the period 2014 - 2018. Stock returns are calculated based on changes in closing stock prices and estimated influence of financial performance factors using the panel data regression method. Based on empirical findings show that financial performance that has been proxy using; CR, TAT, ROA, and DER do not affect stock returns. The results of the study have implications that the company's financial performance is not an important consideration for investors in the decision to buy shares in the Machinery and Heavy Equipment sub-sector company. In many studies, stock prices are much influenced by macroeconomic variables, such as; exchange rates, inflation, interest rates, and oil prices.