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http://dx.doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2020.vol7.no9.329

The Effect of Capital Structure on Financial Performance of Vietnamese Listing Pharmaceutical Enterprises  

DINH, Hung The (School of Accounting and Auditing, National Economics University)
PHAM, Cuong Duc (School of Accounting and Auditing, National Economics University)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.7, no.9, 2020 , pp. 329-340 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigates the effect of capital structure on the financial performance of pharmaceutical enterprises which are listing on Vietnam's stock market. The study builds the regression using ROE as dependent variable and four independent variables, including self-financing, financial leverage, long-term asset and debt to assets ratios. In addition, we use other variables as controlling ones, such as firm size, fixed asset rate and growth. We collect data for the period from 2015 to 2019 of all 30 pharmaceutical enterprises which are currently listing on Vietnam's stock market. The least square regression (OLS) is used to test the effect of capital structure to the firms' financial performance. The analysis results show that the financial leverage ratio (LR), long-term asset ratio (LAR) and debt-to-assets ratio (DR) have positive relationship with firm performance, meanwhile the self-financing (E/C) affects negatively to the return on equity (ROE). Upon the findings we suggest that the Vietnamese government should focus on stabilizing macro environment to create favorable environment for enterprises. And the pharmaceutical enterprises should build more reasonable capital structure with higher debt proportion than equity, diversifying loan mobilization channels such as issuing long-term bonds. Additionally, the firms should expand the scale appropriately to maintain development and ability to pay debts.
Keywords
Capital Structure; Financial Performance; Pharmaceutical Enterprises; Vietnam;
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