Common Stock Price Behavioro of Commercial Banks in Nepal

Abstract

Common stock price behavior highly depends upon financial indicators like EPS and DPS. Banks EPS and DPS are positively and negatively correlated with MVPS. Generally the EPS and DPS are positively correlated with MVPS however sometime the negative correlation is observed this is due to the technical factors like demand and supply rumors in stock market. This descriptive- comparative study was conducted on six banks on the basic of establishment date before 2000. Data were collected from the website of concerned banks. Data are analyzed using the different financial tools and statistical tools. The calculations are presented on back side on the topic appendix. On average the Nabil bank has high EPS i.e. the earning of Nabil has high than compare to others. The investors look to invest in consistence P/E Ratio banks. having less C.V. is considered as consistence in Ratio .so in this criteria NIBL is good .the Nepal bank doesn’t declares the dividend in previous FY that means two things one is Bank is fail to earn profit another is the earning are invested rather than giving dividend. The MVPS/BVPS Ratio is greater than 1 i.e. the banks stocks are overvalued. The findings indicated that there are technical factors rather than fundamental factors that affect the common stock price. The EPS seems more influence market price of stocks. The correlation between the DPS and MVPS shows the highest positive i.e. 0.89 of Kumari Bank. And highest negative is -0.64 of NIBL Bank here the fundamental factors doesn’t works. Random walk efficient market theory is seems to be implied. Key words: common stock, fundamental factors, technical factors, Random walk efficient market.