The Impact of the announcement of stock-split on stock return and stock liquidity In Indonesia Stock Exchange
Author:
Helpina Haloho, Isfenti Sadalia & Rulianda Purnomo Wibowo
Abstract
A stock is the evidence of ownership in investment in buying stocks which are expected to get capital gain. One of the attempts of the investor to get stocks or investment is by using corporation act, stock split since its stock price is affordable. The stock split is that minimal stock values are split into small ones. The purpose of the stock split is to increase stock liquidity although a company which does a stock split, its stocks do not always undergo positive effect. Some stocks even become strong after stock split although some others undergo significant weakness. The objective of this research was to find out the differences in company’s stock return in the pre and post stock split and to find out the accurate strategy of making an investment toward companies which did a stock split. The research used empirical study and applied the practice in the capital market on event study. The population was 17 companies. The result of the research on companies which did the stock split in 2017 showed that 14 companies had fulfilled the criteria as the samples. It was found that stock split did not indicate a significant difference in stock liquidity in the pre and post stock split. Stock return and abnormal stock return did not have any significant difference in pre and post stock split, either in each company or in the portfolio.
Keywords: Stock Splits, Stock Return, Stock Liquidity .
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| Title: |
The Impact of the announcement of stock-split on stock return and stock liquidity In Indonesia Stock Exchange |
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| Author: |
Helpina Haloho, Isfenti Sadalia & Rulianda Purnomo Wibowo |
| Journal Name: | International Journal of Science and Business |
| Website: | ijsab.com |
| ISSN: | ISSN 2520-4750 (Online), ISSN 2521-3040 (Print) |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/After_final_publication |
| Media: | Online & Print |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Acceptance Date: | 15/02/2019 |
| Date of Publication: | XX/02/2019 |
| PDF URL: | https://ijsab.com/wp-content/uploads/329.pdf |
| Free download: | Available |
| Page: | 87-98 |
| First Page: | 87 |
| Last Page: | 98 |
| Current Status: | Accepted |
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Haloho, H., Sadalia, I. & Wibowo, R. P. (2019) The Impact of the announcement of stock-split on stock return and stock liquidity In Indonesia Stock Exchange. International Journal of Science and Business, 3(2), 87-98. doi: https://doi.org/after_final_publication
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About Author
Helpina Haloho, (Corresponding Author), Postgraduate Program, Magister Management, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia.
Isfenti Sadalia, Faculty of Economics & Business, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia.
Rulianda Purnomo Wibowo, Faculty of Agribusiness, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia.
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DOI: https://doi.org/after_final_publication