Profit and growth are considered as important goals in managing firms. This study tests the impact of initial profits … on the growth and profit on a sample of firms listed at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) for the period 2006 to 2011. In … regression borrowed from the work of Davidsson et al. (2009) was used to find out whether profit at initial stages of the firm …

profitability of banks in Pakistan. This study applied the two-step generalized method of momentum (GMM) system estimator on an … unbalanced dynamic panel of 28 banks over the latest period 2007-2016. The robust results reveal that the bank’s profitability in … Pakistan is explained by size, higher solvency, financial structure, operating cost, labor productivity, market power, and …

debt structure, and the effect of this on corporate profitability. The assumption on which the study was based is that, if … profitability but no significant relationship between firm's working capital composition and profitability. The results, however … profitability is positively affected. The study therefore recommends that, for firms to optimize profitability and to maintain good …

Operating leverage increases profitability and reduces optimal financial leverage. Thus, operating leverage generates a … negative relation between profitability and financial leverage that is thought to be inconsistent with the trade-off theory …, but is commonly observed in the data. We demonstrate the effect of operating leverage on firms' profitability and …

profitability in Singapore and Hong Kong before, during and after the global financial crisis. This paper uses the two-step system … Generalized Method of Moments to examine the impact of macroeconomic and firm-specific factors on corporate profitability. The … model includes firm-specific factors (firm size, leverage, liquidity, sales growth and previous year's profitability) and …

This paper presents analysis of profitability indicators of Polish construction companies threatened with bankruptcy … generating positive and negative financial results (both EBIT and net financial results). Moreover, the operating profitability …

This report updates and expands earlier studies to look at the profitability of $349.7 billion of buybacks executed …

impact on Bank profitability. The countries examined are: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy …

This report expands through early 2011 studies of the raw performance (profitability) of $383.5 billion of buybacks … improved the profitability of past buybacks. Since a year ago, stock prices for the sampled group are up about 33.2%, in line …

board of director members' interests with shareholder interests improves the economic profitability of firms. The hypothesis …