The Performance Of Modified Internal Rate Of Return For Equity Investment Assessment: A Markov Chain Approach

dc.contributor.authorM A Sarsour, Wajeeh
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-23T02:31:41Z
dc.date.available2022-06-23T02:31:41Z
dc.date.issued2021-04
dc.description.abstractRecently, investors’ interest in the stock market and its performance has arisen. Investment and share prices are directly related, which makes the stock prices more volatile, and thus the investment is more likely to be of high risk. Research in capital budgeting has considered the application of the modified internal rate of return (MIRR) as an alternative technique to the traditional valuation methods such as the net present value (NPV) and the internal rate of return (IRR) to overcome certain limitations raised from these conventional methods, especially the problem of multiple IRR. However, literature on the MIRR method has some limitations including failing to take into account the share issuance function such as share split and consolidation as well as valuing the performance of an investment project in the long-run using the Markov chain based on the MIRR strategy could be problematic in case of insufficient sample size. Furthermore, the application of the Markov chain in valuing an investment project in the long-run was based on stock prices, NPV, and IRR. Combining these issues, this thesis aims to develop a long-term investment in terms of adjusting the MIRR strategy while considering the share issuance and reinvested dividends into account. Furthermore, this thesis implements Markov chain simulations to obtain the sufficient sample size required to assess the performance of an investment project using the Markov chain model based on the MIRR strategy. The proposed methods are illustrated using stock market data of public listed companies in the Malaysian Product Services and Industrial sector (MIPS) and compared to the stock prices method for robustness. The most important finding to emerge from this thesis is the successful adjustments of the MIRR strategy to assess the performance of an investment project have been clearly reflected by the increase of company’s share prices over time, series of dividend rates, and generous of the company in issuing shares to the shareholders. Furthermore, even though both stock prices and the proposed MIRR strategy have the same evaluation results or recommendations, the current MIRR method provides valuable information to potential investors and the company’s management board. To conclude, this thesis deepens the existing literature in terms of significantly improving the company’s board and potential investors’ knowledge and future investment plans and decisions. However, the proposed MIRR method is computationally demanding.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/15448
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversiti Sains Malaysiaen_US
dc.subjectInvestmenten_US
dc.titleThe Performance Of Modified Internal Rate Of Return For Equity Investment Assessment: A Markov Chain Approachen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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