The performance analysis real estate investment trust: evidence from Malaysia / Mohammad Farhanizam Halib

There issue is regarding the factor that contributes towards the performance of Malaysian Real Estate Investment Trust. Other than that, there is an issue to predict the REIT's dividend in future based on financial performance of those companies. The REITs investor should know the best performance to gain more profit in their investment. The main objectives to identify the factor that influenced to the performance of Malaysian Real Estate Investment Trust, to identity the significant variables to the Malaysian Real Estate Investment Trust Company and to identify relationship between variables influenced and the performance of Malaysian Real Estate Investment Trust. The dependent variable for this study is dividend of REITs company while for independent variables are net Income, leverage, opening price, market capitalization, net asset value, book value, total asset and total equity. There are 17 companies that listed under the REITs but only 13 of 15 have the available data from 2008 until 2014. The decision to use this sample was due to the inability to collect the entire prospectus in the population. Therefore this study decided to use 7 samples of each REITs companies and take yearly from 7 years. The statistical tools use in the study is Linear Regression Model followed by the Panel Data form conduct by Stata 11.