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The Impact of Financial Leverage on Firm’s Profitability: An Empirical Evidence from Listed Textile Firms of Bangladesh

Asian Journal of Business Environment / Asian Journal of Business Environment, (P)2765-6934; (E)2765-7027
2020, v.10 no.2, pp.23-31
Md. Musfiqur RAHMAN (FCMA)
Farjana Nur SAIMA (FBSS)
Kawsar JAHAN (University of Dhaka)
Md., M. R. , Farjana, N. S. , & Kawsar, J. (2020). The Impact of Financial Leverage on Firm’s Profitability: An Empirical Evidence from Listed Textile Firms of Bangladesh. Asian Journal of Business Environment, 10(2), 23-31.
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to find out the impact of financial leverage on firm’s profitability in the listed textile sector of Bangladesh. Research design, data and methodology: A sample of 22 DSE listed textile firms has been used to conduct the study. In this study, firm profitability is measured by Return on Equity (ROE) and both short term debt and long term debt are used as the as proxies of financial leverage. Pooled Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Fixed Effect (FE), and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) models have been used to test the relationship between financial leverage and profitability of firms. Result: This study finds a significant negative relationship between leverage and firm’s profitability using the Pooled OLS method. The result is also consistent with the fixed effect and GMM method. This result implies that firm’s profitability is negatively affected by the firm’s capital structure. Conclusion: The study concludes that maximum textile firms use external debt as a source of finance as they don’t have sufficient internally generated funds. This study recommends that firm should give more emphasize on generating fund internally to meet up their financing needs.

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Capital structure, Profitability, Return on equity, Return on asset, Short term debt and Long term debt.

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