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Who prefers regular dividends? The effect of inventory level and firm operating efficiency on dividends in an emerging market
Stable regular dividends can deliver the steady operation of a firm’s performance to its investors. When firms experience lower operation efficiency and more negative performance, they can affect their cash burden and lower the regular dividends. According to the cash conversion cycle theory, quicker inventory turnover could benefit the firm, and it is a significant signal of efficiency and high performance. In the real business environment, the expectation of future production, logistics and inflation can all affect managers’ decisions. This paper uses data from all Chinese manufacturing companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2017 to 2020 as a sample. The paper provides the empirical causality between inventory turnover, operating efficiency indicators, and dividend distribution, by applying the regression method to find the causality relationship between inventory as the efficiency indicator and the distribution of dividends. The findings indicate that inventory consideration can be complicated and experience the inverse U-shape relationship with dividend decisions. Further, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have different considerations about operating efficiency. They prefer to pay stable regular dividends, even if they are under pressure on operating efficiency and suffer from large inventories. SOEs believe that following political guidance and meeting their social obligations is their prioritized mission.
期刊介绍:
The international journal “Investment Management and Financial Innovations” encompasses the results of theoretical and empirical researches carried out both on macro- and micro-levels, concerning various aspects of financial management and corporate governance, investments and innovations (including using of quantitative methods). It is focused on the international community of financiers, both academics and practitioners. Key topics: financial and investment markets; government policy and regulation; corporate governance; information and market efficiency; financial forecasting and simulation; financial institutions: investment companies, investment funds, investment banks, hedge funds, private pension funds; objects of real and financial investing; financial instruments and derivatives; efficiency of investment projects; econometric and statistic methods in project management; alternative investments; ratings and rating agencies.