IMPACT OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE ON PERFORMANCE OF MALAYSIAN TRADING AND SERVICE FIRMS

The objective of the study is to scrutinize an association between capital structure with trading and services firm's performance listed in Malaysia stock exchange (Bursa Malaysia). The data collected and retrieved from the trading and services company cover from period of 2008 to 2017 which are gathered from Bursa Malaysia, Bloomberg and Thomson Data Stream. Throughout, this study uses multivariate regressions to analyze the entire dependent variables for trading and services firm's performance with its independent variables. In overall, the results show that there are a statistically significant relationship between the capital structure towards trading and services firm's performance. Thus, from the findings, it can provide a reference to trading and services firms and stakeholders to predict the impact of permissible return (yields) to them since this study revealed a new knowledge on the relationship of capital structure towards trading and services sectors which is still under research in Malaysia. (C) 2020 Published by European Publisher.