The effects of quarterly results announcement on share price of industrial products/ Nur Aqilah Jaafar

This paper investigated the effects of quarterly results announcement on share price of industrial products. The data of public listed companies was collected from the Kuala Lumpur Stock exchange (KLSE). The study focuses on top ten companies with highest market capitalization and also known as leader in the sector in Malaysia. By applying the panel data based on first quarter of 2012 until fourth quarter of 2017, this study purpose to analyses the effects of company quarterly report towards stock price. Numerous supporting materials such as journal and articles from prior studies of other researcher also used in this study are collected from the relevant website that is related with this study. This study used earnings per share, revenue, net profit, dividend and net tangible asset as independent variables and price from each company choose as dependent variables. By using regression method and statistical analysis, this study tests the significant relationship between earnings announcement and share price. The collected data in this study will be regressed and analysed by using the software called E view 9 student versions. This study also examined which variables give the most significant effect towards share price. The findings of this study is there is a significant relationship between each variable (revenues, earning per share, net profit, dividend and net tangible asset) and company stock price. It is consistent with the previous study which there is a significant relationship on earnings per share, revenues, net profits, dividend and net tangible asset towards stock price.