Stock priced determinants in Nepal stock exchange

Abstract

The objective of the research are To identify the current status of Earnings Per share (EPS), Dividend per share (DPS), Price Earnings ratio (P/E), Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), Company size (Size) and Market to book ratio (MBR), to analyze the relationships between Earnings Per share (EPS), Dividend per share (DPS), Price Earnings ratio (P/E), Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), Company size (Size) and Market to book ratio (MBR) and to examine the impact of Earnings Per share (EPS), Dividend per share (DPS), Price Earnings ratio (P/E), Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), Company size (Size) to the Market to book ratio (MBR). The researcher done literature review of the research is mainly based on articles and thesis of previous scholars. The descriptive and casual relation research design is used. The population is all the commercial bank of Nepal and ten commercial bank are taken for research randomly. Each companies has a 10 observation and in total 100 observations and secondary data SPSS and Excel are the tools of data analysis. The independent variable of the research are Earnings Per share (EPS), Dividend per share (DPS), Price Earnings ratio (P/E), Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE) and Company size (Size) and the dependent variables and Market to book ratio (MBR). On the basis of the objective the finding are the respective commercial bank are the minimum and maximum gaps is higher. The gap between the mean and minimum and mean and maximum also higher. The standard deviation are found higher. So the current stats of the each variable is fluctuating in nature. The relationship between the Market Book Ratio and Earnings per Share, Dividend per Share, Price Earnings Ratio and Return on Equity is positive and significant. The relationship between the Market Book Ratio and return on assets is positive and not significant relationship. The relationship between the Market Book Ratio and company size is negative bust significant relationship. The impact of Earnings per Share, Price Earnings Ratio, and Return on Equity and Company Size is significant positive to the market book ratio. The impact of Dividend per Share and Return on Assets to the market book ratio is not significant. Keywords: Earnings Per share (EPS), Dividend per share (DPS), Price Earnings ratio (P/E), Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), Company size (Size) and Market to book ratio (MBR xi