Seybold Report ISSN: 1533-9211
Batoul Mehdi Salouhi, Prof. Dr. Jawad Kadham Al Bakri
College of Administration and Economics, University of Babylon, Iraq
Vol 17, No 08 ( 2022 ) | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7027089 | Licensing: CC 4.0 | Pg no: 655-663 | Published on: 27-08-2022
Abstract
This research objective to analyze the stock prices of the banks listed in the Iraq Stock Exchange for the period (2007-2021) and predicts the trends of their stock prices. The research problem centers on answering the following questions: Are stock prices affected by economic, political and security fluctuations? Is the Iraqi environment attractive to financial investment (investment in shares)? What are the future trends of stock prices for the research sample banks? In order to answer the questions, the researcher developed a hypothesis that there is a relationship and a significant effect between (assets, net profit, earnings per share, market value and investments) as internal independent variables and stock prices as a dependent variable. . The internal variables of the research sample banks (assets, net profit, earnings per share, market value and investments) were independent, while the stock prices of each bank were a dependent variable. The researcher reached the following results: The stock prices of the Iraqi stock market in general and the banks of the research sample in particular are affected by economic, political and security fluctuations and thus are negatively reflected on the internal variables of each bank, which leads to a decrease in the prices of its shares.
Keywords:
Stock prices, capital, market value of shares, financial investments, net profit after tax, earnings per share, assets