03396nas a2200409 a 4500 20260818090404.0 170614s2015 th uu|m rtt 0| a1eng d .b12185024 AIT RSPR no.SM-15-14 Tahir, Muhammad Determinants of dividend payout : evidence from the oil and gas industry of Pakistan Pathum Thani, Thailand : Asian Institute of Technology, 2015 34 leaves : ill. Research studies project report ; no. SM-15-14 A research submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration Research report (M. BA.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2015 This study aims to investigate the determinants of dividend payout in Oil and Gas industry of Pakistan. Secondary data from published annual reports of eleven (11) Oil and Gas companies listed on Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) covering the time period from 2008 - 2014 has been used. Depe ndent variable of this study is dividend payout whereas explanatory variables include profitability, firm size , financial leverage, sales growth, investment opportunities, liquidity, business risk, and ownership structure . Panel data technique is used due to panel characteristics of the data. Ordinary least square (OLS) reg ression model has been used to find the impact of set of explanatory variables on the dividend payou t using the Stata . OLS regression results suggest that financial leverage, sales growth and business risk are the most significant variables of the study. Financial leverage and business risk are found to have significant negative effect on dividend payout while sales growth has favorable impact on divid end payout. Other significant variables include profitability, firm size and government owners hip. Results reveal significant positive link of profitability and firm size with dividend payout whereas government ow nership is negatively associated with divid end payout. Investment opportunities, liquidity and managerial ownership showed insignificant relationship with dividend payout Petroleum industry and trade Pakistan Dividends Pakistan Supasith Chonglerttham, Chairperson Juthathip Jongwanich, Examination Committee Badir, Yuosre, Examination Committee University of Turbat, Pakistan, Scholarship donor Asian Institute of Technology. Research studies project report ; no. SM-15-14 Full-Text http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B01659 .b12185024 mnait m 240413 0 170614 m a m 0 000:001:PDF:b1218502:003165:0:0:0:0:0:0 Click to view Abstract n mnait mnarc 20 40 Barcode : 30050120524334 CREATED : 2017-06-14 RECORD # : i13083442 LPATRON : 1027443 LCHKIN : 2018-12-01 # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 1 TOT CHKOUT : 1 TOT RENEW : 2 Barcode : 30050120402838 CREATED : 2017-07-20 RECORD # : i13091050 LPATRON : 0 LCHKIN : - # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 0 TOT RENEW : 0 27929 27929 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnait 2026-08-18 50.00 0 AIT RSPR no.SM-15-14 30050120524334 2026-08-18 09:04:04 1 2026-08-18 20 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnarc 2026-08-18 0 AIT RSPR no.SM-15-14 30050120402838 2026-08-18 09:04:04 2026-08-18 40