Financial indicator influence investment decision of property sector in Malaysia / Muhammad Hannan Hafizuddin Abd Latif

This paper primarily focuses on the impact of financial indicator on investment decisions of firms and it is an attempt to explore the impact of financial leverage on investment levels. These impacts, if they exist, differed among companies with different investment opportunities and with different major shareholders. The objective of this study is to find out the impact of financial leverage on investment made by public listed property firm in Malaysia. The dependent variable is investment, while independent variables consist of Tobin Q, leverage, cash flow and sale. Sample period chosen was from 2006 until 2015 which is 10 years. The sample data were collected from DataStream on public listed companies under Properties sector in Bursa Malaysia. There are 138 companies listed in Main Market under properties sector but only 10 properties have higher volume issues by firms were chosen for this study.