Internal factors affecting the performance of standard and poor's 500 companies / Siti Noor Farhana Bahador

The performance of company is the most importance things to be evaluate in order to determine the effectiveness of the firm. Dividend policy plays an important role in corporate finance because it gives a signal to the performance of company. The internal factors affecting the performance of Standard and Poor's 500 companies are study from year 2010 to 2016. The sampling of the study comprised of nondividend paid and dividend paid company. Besides, the size market capital also is considered in in order to select the samples of study. The variables that used in this study are return on asset, liquidity, firm size and leverage. The Panel Regression method is used in order to obtain desire results. Besides, the normality test also is used in study in order to know the normality distribution of data. From the findings, liquidity, firm size and leverage shows negative relationship with dependent variable. On the other hand, the probability of F-statistics is 0.00000 which indicates that the null hypothesis is rejected at 5% level of significance. Thus, it can be concludes that at least one independent variable is affects by dependent variable.