The performance of companies listed in Bursa Malaysia / Nur Amiera Mohd Apandi

Initial Public Offering is prone to something that will give benefit to the company. Not all listed companies expose their revenues or losses after issuing IPO. Usually, the firm that goes public wants to raise their equity capital, expand their business and improve liquidity by issuing either debt or equity. The shares will be traded in an open market or primary market and will be listed on Bursa Malaysia. The research objective is to determine whether issuing IPO will give benefit to the company. The independent variables for this research are market price, return on asset (ROA) and return on sales (ROS). While dependent variables are returned on investment capital (ROIC). The data are taken from UiTM Library and Database. The data will be collected in Malaysia only. The time period for this research is from 2000 to 2014 which is for 15 years. The data will be collected based on secondary data. The data that will be used in the research is Time Series. In this research, the data will be analyzed by using the Econometric View 7.0 (E-Views).