Devi Asari Manik, Ega Hanaya Syalomita Br Ginting | 1817
DOI : 10.36418/jrssem.v1i11.189 https://jrssem.publikasiindonesia.id/index.php/jrssem/index
INTRODUCTION
Companies must survive in business
competition, for that they need weapons
for companies to compete in the market.
The company requires a large amount of
funding.and must be able to manage the
resources owned to produce output
optimal. The capital market is the right
medium to channel and invest funds that
benefit investors (Firth et al., 2012); (Zeng
et al., 2017). Companies can obtain funds to
finance operational activities and company
expansion from capital market activities.
The capital market can be an alternative
place for companies to obtain funds from
investors (Farag & Johan, 2021); (Probst et
al., 2021). There are two types of
investments that investors can make in the
capital market, namely investments in
financial assets and physical assets (Kolozsi
et al., 2022); (Medabesh & Khan, 2020). The
purpose of investing in the capital market
is to direct the public to channel their funds
to more productive sectors and to achieve
equal distribution of income through
ownership of shares in a company.
Dividend policy is an important thing to
be used as a benchmark for investors in
investing their capital in a company
because investors want a high dividend
distribution. Profits earned by the company
at the end of the year will be distributed to
shareholders in the form of dividends or
will be retained to increase investment
financing capital in the future which is a
permanent source of funds that needs to
be considered for use in the expansion and
development of the company's business
(Ariyani et al., 2019); (Anton & Nucu, 2020),
while on the other hand, distribution
dividends are not expected to threaten the
survival of the company.
Liquidity can be considered in dividend
policy because dividends for companies are
cash outflows (Adityo & Heykal, 2020);
(Kusuma & Semuel, 2019). For companies,
dividends are a cash outflow and this
affects the company's cash position. If a
company is liquid, it is likely to pay large
dividends paid by the company.
The company's profitability is one way
to assess the extent of the rate of return
that will be obtained from its investment
activities (Côrte-Real et al., 2020). Investors
have an expectation of some return on their
current investment. If from year to year the
company has a significant profit, of course
investors tend to be optimistic about the
return as a bigger dividend, if the company
in recent years has suffered losses, the
distribution of dividends to investors will
decrease. Profitability is related to profit,
this profit is used as the basis for the
distribution of dividends. This profitability
is needed by the company if the company
will pay dividends. The profitability
indicator used in this study is ROA.
Company size needs to be considered
in dividend policy. Large, well-established
companies with a good level of profit and
profit stability tend to have easier
opportunities to enter the capital market,
while new companies will experience
difficulties in having access to the capital
market. This affects the flexibility of the
company to obtain large amounts of funds
(Úbeda-García et al., 2018).
Leverage is an important factor
influencing dividend policy. leverage will tie
the company to high fixed payments as a
result of high external financing (McCann et