THE PROFITABILITY, FIRM’S SIZE, DIVIDEND PAYOUT RATIO AND FIRM’S VALUE: CAPITAL STRUCTURE INTERVENTION

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the influence of profitability, firm’s size, and dividend payout ratio towards firm’s value with the capital structure as the intervening variable. The samples employed were the manufacturing companies registered in Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2016-2018. The statistic method used to investigate the hypothesis was a path analysis. The result of the hypothesis investigation proved that the profitability brought significant negative influence towards capital structure, the firm’s size and dividend payout ratio brought insignificant influence towards capital structure; the profitability, firm’s size, dividend payout ratio, and capital structure brought significant positive influence towards the firm’s value. On the other hand, the intervening testing results proved that the capital structure intervened in the influence of the profitability towards the firm’s value, and the capital structure did not intervened in the influence of the firm’s size and dividend payout ratio towards the firm’s value. Being able to pick stocks with profitability value and high dividend payout ratio and choosing a large-scale company are the research implications for investors to scale up the firm’s value. Furthermore, companies can increase profitability, pay higher dividend, and choose a large-scale company by balancing the capital structure, so that firm’s value increases.