Impact of Financial Sector Variables on Shari’a Compliant Cross-Section Stock Returns
5th Annual American Business Research Conference, Sheraton Laguardia East Hotel, New York, USA, 6-7 June, 2013
24 Pages Posted: 7 Jan 2014 Last revised: 23 Jan 2018
Date Written: January 6, 2014
Abstract
Shari’a compliant stocks are the recent development under Islamic finance, whereby stocks are screened through Shari’a compliance filters. This study is conducted to understand and document the important monetary factors contributing in determining stock prices of Shari’a compliant companies in Pakistan. Our sample includes all 97 non-financial companies screened by Al-Meezan Investment Management Ltd; based on accounting results of 2009. We have included four monetary variables in addition to market index in our study for ten years period (2001-10). Results identified two important variables in pricing; however, with the inclusion of market index in analysis, the single important variable in pricing of Shari’a compliant securities is market Beta. Evidence favors CAPM for pricing of securities in local market as market index captures the risk of macroeconomic variables.
Keywords: Shari’a compliant Securities, macroeconomic variables, APT, KSE, Pakistan
JEL Classification: G11, G12
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