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What Factors Affect Stocks’ Abnormal Return during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Data from the Indonesia Stock Exchange Data from the Indonesia Stock Exchange

Yohanes Indrayono
Universitas Pakuan, Indonesia
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DOI icon 10.24018/ejbmr.2021.6.6.1139

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Submitted 2021-10-10
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This study identifies Indonesian investors’ reactions to the drop in stock prices on the Indonesia Stock Exchange market, during the early months of the COVID-19 crisis, before and after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that its global spread constitutes a pandemic. It also explores variables that influence stock returns on this market during the financial crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study uses a regression analysis of 70 firms, listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange to examine the pandemic’s influence on trading volume, market capitalization, profitability, and book value for the period December 31, 2019, to April 30, 2020. The results show that stock returns were lower in the early period of the financial crisis caused by the pandemic. Firms’ trading volumes, profitability and book values positively affected stock returns and their market capitalization negatively affected stock returns during the study period. This study contributes useful insights to the finance literature and stock-market participants in terms of dealing with stock markets during financial crises. This study recommends that in any crisis investors should begin buying stocks or increasing their stock purchases to achieve abnormal returns by choosing stocks that perform well in terms of firm profitability and book value by looking a number of financial factors.

Keywords: Book Value, Financial Crisis, Market Capitalization, Profitability, Stock Returns, Transaction Volume

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