Stock Market Measures and Market Performance

• 作者: B.J.Liyanapathirana R.P.K.C.M.Ranasinghe
• 来源期刊: 经济科学研究(英文)
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: Sri Lanka Stock market measures Stock market performance
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（2）
• 页码范围: 31-37
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: F42

摘要

Sri Lanka is considered a highly fluctuating economy in the South Asian region.Understanding the behavior of economics is of utmost important to obtain the maximum benefit.Stock market can be considered as one of the key influencers to the economy whereas the behavior of the stock market would highly define the behaviors of the economic system.It is required to identify the stock market measures and their contribution for the market development to recognize the influence of stock market.The immense importance of its actions on the market performance leads to find more about the stock market’s measures.This research contains the evidence of the study conducted to identify the stock markets development and behavior measures such as all share price index,market capitalization,dividend yield,price to earnings ratio and shares traded equity.All of these variables were used to obtain a model to describe and predict performance of stock market over the time.The secondary data from the CSE(Colombo Stock Exchange)is studied which the trend analysis was conducted for each series of data and results were used for the analysis.A statistical analysis was carried out to identify the measures of stock market depicts that all the measures of the stock market have influences on the stock market development except for the dividend yield,a useful fact in the process of decision making in many aspects.