تفصيلات المستثمرين في سوق فلسطين للأوراق المالية لسياسات توزيع الإرباح

Abstract EN

The aim of the study is to be acquainted with dividends policies utilized by Palestinian corporations and to get these policies compared with policies used in other countries, in addition to investorsʼ preference in regards to these policies.

The study used a descriptive approach.

Data was gathered through a questionnaire submitted to investors in the corporations used as the sample of the study.

The study adopted three hypotheses that pertain to investorsʼ age, gender and size of investment to discuss the impact of these variables on investorsʼ preferences.

The study concluded that investors prefer the periodic distribution of dividends and stocks dividends.

On the other hand, fixed dividends policy, the percentage dividends of net profit and the policy of no distribution of dividends are not preferred by investors.

As perceived by corporations, the study concluded that the preferred policy is not to distribute the dividends.

The study also showed that there are no statistically significant differences due to the size of investment, age or gender of investor.

Finally, the study gave a number of recommendationsʼ, the major one was calling the corporations to use the distribution policies which are preferred by investors.