ANALISIS PENGARUH STRUKTUR MODAL DAN UKURAN PERUSAHAAN TERHADAP PROFITABILITAS PERUSAHAAN RETAIL INDONESIA

Abstract

Profit is the ultimate goal that will be achieved by a company. The most important thing for a company is getting maximum profit. Therefore, company management in practice must be able to meet the set targets.This research aimed to find out and analyze the effect of capital structure and firm size on the profitability of retailer companies which were listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange. This research was quantitative. While, the population was 23 retailer companies which were listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange 2013-2017. Furthermore, the data collection technique used purposive sampling sampling is a technique of determining sample with certain considerations.In line with, there were 8 retailer companies which were listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange 2013-2017, as sample. Moreove, the data analysis technique used multiple linier regressions.Based on the result and discussion of this research, it concluded the capital structure had negative and significant effect on the profitability. On the other hand, firm size had positive but insignificant effect on the profitability of retailer companies which were listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange 2013-2017.

Keywords: profitability, capital structure, firm size.