The Volatile Effect on Stock Prices Movements A Study of Iraqi Stock Market

Abstract

AbstractThe research aimed at testing many of internal variables which related to sample from Iraqi industrial sector companies that registered in Baghdad Stock Exchange. Those are cash dividend profits, dividend profits as stocks, and P/E ratio, and those effects in stocks price vicissitudes. The time period covered three years from 1998-2000. The achievement of research purpose required select the samples consisting of 10 industrial companies which have been choose it on certain bases. This research depended on three hypotheses: First: There is a significant relation between cash dividend profits and stocks prices vicissitudes. Second: There is a significant relation between dividend profits as stocks and stocks prices vicissitudes. Third: There is significant relation between P/E Ratio and stocks prices vicissitudes.The study reached to some conclusions: 1. Cash dividend profits, dividend profits as stocks and P/E Ratio don’t have any effect on stocks prices vicissitudes , in the other mean this variable don’t expression the a vicissitudes in stocks prices .2. A big side from stocks prices vicissitudes are not depend on logical basics, and stand to other features effected, some of them are internal related by companies activities. Some of them are external come from psychologist trend reflection in behavior and manners of investors, and there is anther process which happen inside the financial markets.