Investment decisions of public and private manufacturing firms in India

  • Authors

    • Malavika A
    • Bhawana Jain
    • Hari Krishnan A. V
    2018-06-08
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.33.15509
  • Investment, Fixed Assets, Public, Private, Return on Assets, Debt Equity Ratio, Dividend, Total Expenditure.

  • Abstract

    The study intents to explore the factors that influence the investment decisions of public limited and private limited manufacturing firms in India. The data for the study was collected for a period of 10 years from CMIE Prowess. Variables such as ROA, Debt/Equity, Dividend and Total Expenditure have been considered as independent variables for the research. The study found that investment decisions of private firms are influenced by factors like ROA, Debt/Equity and Expenses, whereas the public firms’ investment decisions are influenced by ROA, dividend and Expenses.

     

     

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    A, M., Jain, B., & Krishnan A. V, H. (2018). Investment decisions of public and private manufacturing firms in India. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.33), 829-831. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.33.15509

    Received date: 2018-07-13

    Accepted date: 2018-07-13

    Published date: 2018-06-08