Dividend quarter report announcement effect on stock price: case of 10 bluechips companies / Muhamad Faizal Onn

• Main Author: Onn, Muhamad Faizal
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Business Management 2018
• Subjects: Stock price indexes. Stock quotations; Expenditures, Public
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26721/1/PPb_MUHAMAD%20FAIZAL%20ONN%20BM%20J%2018_5.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26721/

Nowadays, lots of people are joining the world of stock investments. This is due to the fact this kind of investment is safer and easier to predict as long as investors uses the correct indicator. Among the indicator that can be used to predict the stock price movement is by referring to the previous trend. However, investors now start to use other indicator as way to predict the stock price movement. One of them is by referring to the quarterly dividend announcements. Some investors believe that by referring to the quarterly announced dividend, they can predict the company performance and hence, the stock price movement. However, does it necessarily true that an increase in the quarterly dividend announced will cause the stock price to increase? Therefore, researcher aim to answer this question by using variables such as revenues, net profit, dividend, etc.