Nexus between financial leverage and dividend payout from manufacturing firms listed at Dar es Salaam stock exchange, Tanzania

Autor: James Daniel Chindengwike
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Cogent Business & Management, Vol 11, Iss 1 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 23311975
2331-1975
18964249
DOI: 10.1080/23311975.2023.2292345
Popis: AbstractThe relationship between financial leverage and dividend pay-out is very crucial to support the stock market development. The most of the literatures concentrated on the relationship between equity and dividend payout. This study aims to investigate the connection between financial leverage and dividend payout among manufacturing firms listed at Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) in Tanzania. The research employed a longitudinal research design with a quantitative approach. The study used a total of 105 firm-year observations from 7 manufacturing companies, ranging from 2006 to 2020. The research employed document review to assemble the data required for the research. The data from this study were analysed descriptively and inferentially using panel data regression. The research found that the financial leverage of manufacturing companies affected dividend pay-outs (P
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