Liquidity is considered to be one of the most important subject in the banking sector
because it’s the key to maintain a secure financial position and it’s the main mean to gain
the customer and depositor trust, and meet any obligation that might c
ome up.
In this paper we study effect of the liquidity and risk on the Syrian private bank’s
profitability and the nature of this effect, to achieve this object we choose ten financial
ratios for a sample of ten commercial banks between 2008 – 2014. The data have been
basically collected from the financial statements of the studied banks. To analyze the
research data we use one of the Panel Data Models which is the Fixed Effects Model. The
data have been analyzed by using EViews 7.
We conclude that the liquidity ratio have a significant negative effect on the bank’s
profitability. liquidity risk have a significant positive effect on the profitability ratio .
The present study has been conducted to examine the impact of seven of most important internal factors on stock prices for all listed banks in Dubai and Abu Dhabi stock markets. Pooled Least Square, Fixed Effects (FE), and Random Effects (RE) models
have been used to carry out the analysis for data pertaining to 23 banks for a time period between 2014-2017. The aim of the study is to examine the most important internal factors affecting stock prices in the banking sector of United Arab Emirates, and whether internal factors determining stock prices in this sector are the same for Dubai and Abu Dhabi stock markets. The results give evidence of positive and significant impact of Earnings Per Share (EPS) and Dividend Per Share (DPS) on market price for shares, in all markets for the former and only in Abu Dhabi stock market for the later. By contrast, the study reveals a negative impact of Return on Equity (RoE), Dividend Yield (DY), and Price Earnings (P_E) on market price for shares. Even more important, the study gives evidence of differentiated impact of variables representing dividend policies, on market price for shares, between the two markets investigated in United Arab Emirates
