The Influence of Profitability, Liquidity, Leverage, and Covid-19 Effect on Stock Returns: The Moderating Role of Inflation on Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2019-2023 (The Case of LQ-45 Index)

Hakim, Wasi'ul (2025) The Influence of Profitability, Liquidity, Leverage, and Covid-19 Effect on Stock Returns: The Moderating Role of Inflation on Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2019-2023 (The Case of LQ-45 Index). S1 thesis, Universitas Andalas.

Abstract

This study aims to examine the influence of profitability (ROE), liquidity (CR), leverage (DER), and covid-19 effect on stock returns, with inflation rate as a moderating variable. The research sample includes companies listed on LQ-45 Index from 2019 to 2023. The analysis is conducted using Eviews 12, resulting the negative and significant effect of profitability (ROE) to the stock returns. However, other independent variable including liquidity (CR), leverage (DER), are found to have no significant effect on stock returns, while the COVID-19 effect found positive and significant effect on stock returns. Furthermore, the inflation is only found to moderate the relationship between profitability (ROE) and stock returns.

Actions (login required)

View Item