PENGARUH LEVERAGE RATIO DAN AKTIVITAS TERHADAP PROFITABILITAS PADA PERUSAHAAN RITEL

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out the influence of leverage ratio and activity to the profitability of retail companies which are listed in indonesia stock exchange both simulaneous and partial. The data collection technique has been done by using secondary data. The sample are 12 retail companies which are listed in IDX and they have been selected by using purposive sampling. The data is the financial statements of the retail companies in 2011-2014 periods in STIESIA indonesia stock exchange investment Gallery Surabaya. The analysis technique has been done using multiple linear regressions analysis. The data has been processed by using SPSS 16.0 software. Based on the result of the research, it has been found that the result of classic assumption test shows that assuming violation does not occur. The model feasibility test has generated models that are feasible to be used in this reseach. The hypothesis test in this research shows that the leverage ratio variable has insignificant influence to the profitability of the retail companies where as the activity variable has significant influence to the profitability of the retail companies which are listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange. and the result of the feasibility test models of 0.529 shows that ROE, debt to equity ratio, dan total asset turn over have positive and significant influence to the profitability of the ritael companies which are listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange can be said worthy models used in the research.
Keywords: Leverage Ratio, Activity, and Profitability