The effect of capital structure and firm size towards companies profitability: evidence from oil and gas industry in Malaysia / Fardy Haris

The objective of this study is to analyse the significant and positive, negative relationship of the capital structure and firm size toward profitability of oil and gas companies in Malaysia by using panel data method, the data involved the companies in the stock exchange ( Bursa Malaysia) of Malaysia from 2009 to 2015.In this study three variable are used where profitability used as dependent variable and capital structure and firm size are used as independent variable. To analyze the results of research, software Stata 12.0 is used. Result from the study shows that capital structure have a significant positive relationship with profitability. Meanwhile firm size have an insignificant relationship toward profitability of the oil and gas companies in Malaysia.