The correlation matrix for the variables is reported in Table 2 in order to examine the correlation between the explanatory variables. The results show that there is a negative relationship between growth and size and between growth and leverage, while size has a positive relationship with all leverage ratios except STDTA, which is negative. This implies that larger companies tend to have a higher leverage ratio with lower growth opportunities. It also implies that small firms have high growth opportunity which is consistent with Myers (1977). It also shows that most Jordanian companies had negative growth in the sample period, and there is a positive correlation between risk and leverage ratio, which implies that leveraged firms have a high risk as debt holders can take over the firm.
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