The study meant to explore the external and internal factors which influence firm’s profitability i.e. “Firm and Industry Effects on Firm Profitability”. In this research ROA and ROE has taken as profitability measure and their dependency has checked with firm effect, industry effect and...

In this paper I will try to apply an algorithm of hierarchic classification of the economic and financial performance for a group of companies in the chemical field, listed with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a classification which will be performed taking into consideration the Return on...

This paper examines the relationship between Capital adequacy and profitability. Necessary data were gathered from the financial statements of nine Saudi banks listed in the stock exchange market over the period of 2007-2011. The results of analyzing the data based on the implementation of...

This paper proposes a risk scoring model to assess the performance of 27 US companies listed online by applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and comparing with the traditional financial measure Return on Equity (ROE). The DEA evaluation process involves two processes: (1) computation of...

This paper is intended to study the connection between the Economic Value Added (EVA) and the price of shares listed with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The study covers 635 listed companies, the period studied for the EVA is June 2012, and the quotation of the shares is for August 2012.

The authors analyze commercial banks’ profitability (return on equity, ROE) at different levels of creditor rights and an aggregate score of information sharing in terms of credit bureaus. After controlling for bank size and some macroeconomic variables, the results indicate that profitability...