The determinants of capital structure of stock exchange-listed non-financial firms in Pakistan.
Shah, Attaullah ; Hijazi, Tahir
1. INTRODUCTION
Capital structure refers to the different options used by a firm in
financing its assets. Generally, a firm can go for different
levels/mixes of debts, equity, or other financial arrangements. It can
combine bonds, TFCs, lease financing, bank loans or many other options
with equity in an overall attempt to boost the market value of the firm.
In their attempt to maximise the overall value, firms differ with
respect to capital structures. This has given birth to different capital
structure theories that attempt to explain the variation in capital
structures of firms over time or across regions. On the other hand,
empirical evidence is also not sometime consistent in substantiating a
particular capital structure theory.
This paper attempts to answer the question of what determines the
capital structure of Pakistani listed firms other than those in
financial sector. According to the authors' knowledge, it is the
first thorough study to be conducted in Pakistan with regard to
determinants of capital structure of listed non-financial firms. Though
Booth, et al. (2001) have worked on the determinants of capital
structure of 10 developing countries including Pakistan; however, their
study analyses data only for the firms that were included in the KSE-100
Index from 1980 to 1987.
The paper is organised as follows. Section l introduces the paper.
In the next section, some of the theoretical literature concerning the
determinants and effects of leverage is reviewed. In Section 3 we
describe our data and we justify the choice of the variables used in our
analysis. In Section 4 we estimate the model used in our analysis. The
Fifth Section presents the results and conclusion.
2. THEORIES OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE
2.1. Miller and Modigliani Theory of Irrelevance
In their seminal paper, Modigliani and Miller (1958) showed that
the value of the firm is independent of the capital structure it takes
on (MM irrelevance). They argue that there would be arbitrage
opportunities in the perfect capital market if the value of the firm
depends on its capital structure. Furthermore, investor can neutralise any capital structure decision of the firms if both investor and firms
can borrow at the same rate of interest. Though this theory is based on
many unrealistic assumptions, yet it provides the basics theoretical
background for further research.
2.2. The Trade-off Theory
The trade-off theory says that a firm's adjustment toward an
optimal leverage is influenced by three factors namely taxes, costs of
financial distress and agency costs.
(a) Taxes
Interest, being a tax deductible expense, decreases the tax
liability and increases the after tax cash flows. Firms in their attempt
to increase cash flows and market value will embark on higher level of
debt if the tax rate is higher. Thus tax rate and leverage have positive
relationship.
(b) Bankruptcy Costs
The possibility of default on debts increases with the increase in
level of debt beyond the optimal point. Should the firm default on
repayment of loan; the control of the firm will be shifted from
shareholders to bondholders who will try to repossess their investment
through the process of bankruptcy. Because of the possible financial
distress caused by the higher level of leverage, a firm may face two
types of bankruptcy costs. They are direct costs and indirect costs.
Direct costs include the administrative costs of the bankruptcy process.
If the firm is large in size, these costs constitute only small
percentage for the firm. However, for a small firm, these fixed costs constitute higher percentage and are considered active variable in
deciding the level of debt. The indirect costs arise because of change
in investment policies of the firm encase the firm foresees possible
financial distress. To avoid possible bankruptcy, firm will cut down
expenditures on research and development, training and education of
employees, advertisement etc. Furthermore, customers begin to doubt the
firm's ability to maintain the same level of quality in goods and
services. This doubt appears in the form of drop in sales and eventually
results in drop of the market share price of the firm.
This implies that the potential benefits from employing leverage
are shadowed by the potential costs of bankruptcy.
2.3. Agency Theory
Jensen and Meckling (1976) identify the possible conflict between
shareholders and managers interests because of the manager's share
of less than 100 percent in the firm. Furthermore, acting as agents to
shareholders, managers try to appropriate wealth away from bondholders
to shareholders by taking more debt and investing in risky projects. The
managers' given role has many implications for the capital
structure of a firm. To be more specific, the following summary points
are presented.
(a) The Free Cash Flow Hypothesis
Free cash flow refers to cash flow available after funding all
projects with positive cash flows. Managers having less than 100 percent
stake in business may try to use the free cash flows sub-optimally or
use them to their own advantage rather than to increase value of the
firm. Jensen (1986) suggests that this problem can be somehow controlled
by increasing the stake of managers in the business or by increasing
debt in the capital structure, thereby reducing the amount of
"free" cash available to managers [Jensen (1986); Stultz
(1990)]. Here the reduction in cash flow because of debt financing is
considered to be the benefit of debt financing.
(b) Overinvestment and Underinvestment Problems
The bondholder expropriation hypothesis says that shareholders try
to gain advantage at the cost of bondholders. If investment yields high
returns, the extra or additional benefits go to shareholders and if the
firm fails, the bondholders also sustain the loss. So bondholders share
extra risks for no reward. Being agents to shareholders, management
tries to invest even in projects that may not have good chances of
viability. This phenomenon is termed as "overinvestment
problem". The losses sustained by shareholders because of this
incentive are termed as "asset substitution effect".
On the other hand, the underinvestment problem refers to the
tendency of managers to avoid safe net present value projects in which
value of equity may decrease a little, however, increase in value of
debt maybe high. This happens because management, being primarily
responsible to shareholders, does not concern itself with the overall
increase in value of the firm rather it tries to increase the value of
equity only [Myers and Majluf (1984)].
Jenson and Meckling (1976) propose that optimal capital structure
is reached by trading off the agency costs of debt against the benefits
of debt.
2.4. Information Costs and Signalling Effects
Another approach to explain the capital structure of firms is the
differences in the level of information, which the outsiders have about
the investment opportunities and income distribution of the firm.
Information asymmetry may result in two different outcomes for capital
structure.
The first effect on capital structure because of information is
called signalling with proportion of debt. Ross (1977) says that
managers have better knowledge of the income distribution of the firm.
When they issue debt, it may generate positive signals to the outside
world about the firm's income distribution suggesting that the firm
has stable income and is able to pay the periodic instalments and
interest payments. In this regard, higher debt may show higher
confidence of managers in the firm's smooth income distribution and
adequacy of the income. Thus firms in their efforts to increase
investors' confidence and thus increase the value of equity will
use higher debt in the capital structure.
Another possible effect of information is upon the mispricing of
new securities. Myers and Majluf (1984) say that investors generally
perceive that managers use private information to issue risky securities
when they are overpriced. This perception of investors leads to the
underpricing of new equity issue. Sometimes this underpricing is very
severe and cause substantial loss to the existing shareholders. Because
of this, firms will avoid issuing equity for financing new project;
rather they will first fulfil their needs of financing from internally
generated funds then issue debt if further financing is required and
finally issue equity as a last resort. This has been termed as
"Pecking Order Theory". Krasker (1986) says the same that
equity prices fall when new issue of stock is given. Because of this
phenomenon firms are inclined to finance new projects from internally
generated funds or debt.
3. DATA AND MEASUREMENT OF VARIABLES
3.1. Source of Data
The study is based on the data taken from the State Bank of
Pakistan publication "Balance Sheet Analysis of Joint Stock
Companies Listed on The Karachi Stock Exchange Volume-II
1996-2001". This publication provides useful information on key
accounts of the financial statements of all listed firms of KSE for six
year period.
3.2. The Sample
Initially we decided to include all listed firms in our analysis
for the period 1997-2001. As the capital structure of the firms in
financial sector is quite different from firms in non-financial sector,
we excluded all firms in financial sector like banks, insurance
companies, and investment companies. We also excluded those firms from
our analysis for which complete data was not available for the period
1997-2001. To avoid outlier in the data that can possibly distort the
analysis, we excluded all firms that had values at least three standard
deviation from the average value of the total firms. Finally we were
left with the sample of 445 firms in non-financial sector industries
listed on Karachi Stock Exchange from 1997 to 2001. In this way we have
total of 2225 firm-years.
3.3. Dependent and Independent Variables
After discussing the various theories of capital structure, now we
discuss the potential dependent and independent variables for our study.
We take the debt to total assets ratios as a proxy for leverage
(dependent variable). For independent variables, though there can be
many, however, following Rajan and Zingales (1995) we take only four
main independent variables namely, tangibility, profitability, growth
and size of the firm.
Measure of Leverage (LG)
Several research studies have used both market and book value based
measures of leverage [Titman and Wessels (1988); Rajan and Zingales
(1995)]. The former measure divides book value of debt by book value of
debt plus market value of equity and the later measure divides the book
value of debt by book value of debt plus book value of equity. We use
the book value measure of leverage. This can be justified with the
argument that optimal level of leverage is determined by the tradeoff
between the benefits and costs of debt financing. The main benefit of
leverage is the cash savings generated because of the debt-tax shield.
This tax shield benefits are not changed by market value of the debt
once it is issued [Banerjee, et al. (2000)]. This is why market value of
debt becomes irrelevant. On the other hand, the primary cost of
borrowing is the increased chances of bankruptcy. If a firm falls in
financial distress and goes into bankruptcy, then the relevant value of
the debt is the book value of debt. Finally, book value measure provides
relative ease and accuracy with which it can be calculated.
Another consideration in deciding the appropriate measure of
leverage is to take total debt or only long term debt as a percentage of
total assets. Though capital structure theories consider long term debt
as a proxy for financial leverage, we use the measure of total debt
because in Pakistan firms have mostly short-term financing as the
average firm size is small which makes access to capital market
difficult in terms of cost and technical difficulties. The main sources
of debt in Pakistan have been commercial banks, which do not encourage
long term loans, with almost no reliance on market based debt until mid
1994 when government moved to remove most of the constraints among which
one action was to amend company law to permit corporate entities to
raise debt directly from the market in the form of TFCs (Term Finance
Certificates). So corporate bond market has limited history and is in
the process of development. This explains why firms on average in
Pakistan have more short term financing than long term financing. Booth,
et al. (2001) also pointed in their study on determinants of capital
structure in developing countries including Pakistan that the use of
short term financing is higher than long term financing in developing
countries.
Independent Variables
1. Tangibility of Assets (TG)
A firm with large amount of fixed asset can borrow at relatively
lower rate of interest by providing the security of these assets to
creditors. Having the incentive of getting debt at lower interest rate,
a firm with higher percentage of fixed asset is expected to borrow more
as compared to a firm whose cost of borrowing is higher because of
having less fixed assets. Thus we expect a positive relationship between
tangibility of assets and leverage. We measure tangibility of asset (TG)
as a ratio of fixed assets divided by total assets. We take total gross
amount of fixed assets as the numerator. Using total gross amount of
fixed assets rather than net depreciated value of assets makes sense as
(i) different firms may possibly use different deprecation methods which
may create unevenness in the data (ii) a firm can pledge an asset having
a market value even if it has been fully depreciated. Calculating
tangibility this way, the ratio was above one in some cases suggesting
that total gross fixed assets were more than total assets. Our first
hypothesis is:
Hypothesis 1: A firm with higher percentage of fixed assets will
have a higher debt ratio.
2. Size (SZ)
There are two conflicting viewpoints about the relationship of size
to leverage of a firm. First, large firms do not consider the direct
bankruptcy costs as an active variable in deciding the level of leverage
as these costs are fixed by constitution and constitute a smaller
proportion of the total firm's value. And also, larger firms being
more diversified have lesser chances of bankruptcy [Titman and Wessels
(1988)]. Following this, one may expect a positive relationship between
size and leverage of a firm.
Second, contrary to first view, Rajah and Zingales (1995) argue
that there is less asymmetrical information about the larger firms. This
reduces the chances of undervaluation of the new equity issue and thus
encourages the large firms to use equity financing. This means that
there is negative relationship between size and leverage of a firm.
Following Rajan and Zingales (1995), we expect a negative relationship
between size and leverage of the firm.
We measure size (SZ) of the firm by the taking the natural log of
the sales as this measure smoothens the variation in the figure over the
periods of time.
Hypothesis 2: There is a negative relationship between size and
leverage of the firm.
3. Growths (GT)
Empirically, there is much controversy about the relationship
between growth rate and level of leverage. According to pecking order
theory hypothesis, a firm will use first internally generated funds
which may not be sufficient for a growing firm. And next options for the
growing firms is to use debt financing which implies that a growing firm
will have a high leverage [Drobetz and Fix (2003)].
On the other hand, agency costs for growing firms are expected to
be higher as these firms have more flexibility with regard to future
investments. The reason is that bondholders fear that such firms may go
for risky projects in future as they have more choice of selection
between risky and safe investment opportunities. Deeming their
investments at risk in future, bondholders will impose higher costs at
lending to growing firms. Growing firms, thus, facing higher cost of
debt will use less debt and more equity. Congruent with this, Titman and
Wessels (1988); Barclay, et al. (1995) and Rajah and Zingales (1995) all
find a negative relationship between growth opportunities and leverage.
Initially we expect that firms with higher growth opportunities
will have higher level of leverage. Different research studies have used
different measures of growth; like market to book value of equity,
research expenditure to total sales measure and annual percentage
increase in total assets [Titman and Wessels (1988)]. Given the
structure of data we measure growth (GT) as a percentage increase in
total assets, as the data was taken from the State Bank of Pakistan
publication which does not contain information on annual stock prices
and research expenditure of the listed firms.
Hypothesis 3: Firms with a higher growth rate will have higher
leverage.
4. Profitability (PF)
Given the pecking order hypothesis firms tend to use internally
generated funds first and than resort to external financing. This
implies that profitable firms will have less amount of leverage [Myers
and Majluf (1984)]. We expect a negative relationship between
profitability and leverage.
We measure profitability (PF) as the ratio of net income before
taxes divided by total assets. Previous studies have used earning before
interest and taxes (EBIT) divided by total assets, as a measure of
profitability as it is independent of leverage effects. However we use
the said measure as the data taken from the State Bank of Pakistan
publication does not permit us to calculate (EBIT).
Hypothesis 4: Firms with higher profitability with have lesser
leverage.
Table 1 summarises the discussion on the determinants of capital
structure and their measures and the expected relationship with leverage
as par our hypotheses.
Table 2 presents the mean, median, maximum, minimum and standard
deviation for the variables discussed above.
To check for the possible multicollinearity among the independent
variables, we calculate the Pearson's co-efficient of correlations
for the independent variables. Table 3 presents the results.
As we can see from the above table, the multicollinearity problem
is not too severe among the selected independent variables. However, the
table sheds light on some interesting correlations. First, tangibility
is negatively correlated with the other three variables. It is
interesting to observe that large firms have lesser-fixed assets as a
percentage of total assets. One explanation may be that large firms do
carry more fixed assets in absolute rupee terms; however, they
constitute lesser percentage of total assets as the overall firm's
size is too large. On the other hand, small firms may employ fewer
amounts of fixed assets in absolute terms; however, the overall
percentage is higher because fixed assets are needed and added in
chunks.
The second observation is the positive correlation between
profitability and size suggesting that large firms are more profitable.
Third, the positive correlation between size and growth shows that large
firms grow more. One explanation may be that large firms can afford to
spend more on research and development and thus are able to add new
product lines with which growth opportunities increase.
4. SPECIFICATION OF THE MODEL
The study uses panel data regression analysis. The panel data
analysis facilitates analysis of cross-sectional and time series data.
We use the pooled regression type of panel data analysis. The pooled
regression also called the constant coefficients model is one where both
intercepts and slopes are constant. The cross section company data and
time series data are pooled together in a single column assuming that
there is no significant cross section or temporal effects.
The general form of our model is:
[LG.sub.it] = [[beta].sub.0] + [beta] [X.sub.it] + [epsilon] ...
(1)
[LG.sub.it] = The measure of leverage of a firm i at time t
[[beta].sub.0] =The intercept of the equation
[[beta].sub.i] = The change co-efficient for [X.sub.it] variables
[X.sub.it] = The different independent variables for leverage of a
firm i at time t
i = The number of the firms i.e. i = 1, 2, 3.... N(in this study N=
445 firms)
t = The time period i.e. t = 1, 2, 3...T(in this study T= 5 years).
Specifically, when we convert the above general least square
equation into our specified variables, the equation will be:
[LG.sub.it] = [[beta].sub.0] +
[beta].sub.1]([TG.sub.it])+[[beta].sub.2]([SZ.sub.it])+[[beta].sub.3]
([GT.sub.it]+[[beta].sub.4])+([PF.sub.it])+[epsilon]. (2)
LG = Leverage
TG = Tangibility of assets
SZ = Size
GT = Growth
PF = Profitability
[epsilon] = The error term.
5. RESULTS OF THE ANALYSIS
The Table 4 shows the summary output for the regression analysis.
The [R.sup.2] shows that only 25 percent of the variations in the
dependent variable (LG) are explained by the variations in the given
four independent variables. The Adjusted [R.sup.2] is slightly below the
[R.sup.2]. The F-statistics shows the validity of the model as its
97.53130 value is well above its Prob(F-statistic) value of 0.0000.
Analysing the results for the effects of independent variable on
dependent variable, we find that asset tangibility is positively
correlated with leverage. However, we do not find much evidence that
this relationship is statistically significant. Though the positive sign
confirms our hypothesis about tangibility of assets, the statistical
insignificance does not support our hypothesis. Thus we reject our
hypothesis 1. The results thus do not confirm to the Jensen and
Meckling's (1976) and Myers' (1977) version of trade-off
theory that debt level should increase with more fixed tangible assets
on balance sheet.
Size (SZ) is positively correlated with leverage. This suggests
that large firms in Pakistan borrow more and small firms are fearful of
more debt. This contradicts to our earlier hypothesis about the size of
the firm that large firms will have lower level of leverage. This
confirms to the bankruptcy cost theory on leverage that fixed direct
costs of bankruptcy constitute a smaller portion of the total value of
the firm thus larger firms do not hesitate to take more debt because of
fear of bankruptcy. At the same time, the results contradict to the
Rajan and Zingales (1995) view of less asymmetric information about
large firms suggesting that new equity issue will not be under priced
and thus large firms will issue more equity. We find the relationship
significant at 10 percent level but not at 5 percent and 1 percent
level.
Growth is negatively related to leverage and is significant at 10
percent and 5 percent level. This suggests that growing firms in
Pakistan use more of equity and less debt to finance the new investment
opportunities. This confirms to our earlier hypothesis about growth
opportunities. This also supports the simple version of pecking order
theory that suggest growing firms will resort first to the internally
generated funds for fulfilling their financing needs. However, this does
not support the extended version of pecking order theory that suggests
that internally generated funds may not be sufficient for a growing
firms and next option for such firm would be to use debt financing.
One explanation for low level of leverage for a growing firm may be
that a growing firm is considered to be risky in terms of the new
investment opportunities it embarks upon. Deeming their investment at
risk in future, creditors impose high cost of lending to such firms.
Facing higher costs of debt, growing firms prefer equity financing over
debt financing. On the other hand, there may be some reluctance on the
part of the growing firms to use debt financing. The reason is that
growing firms face relatively higher investment risk as compared to
stagnant firms. Investment opportunities will be more risky if the firms
expand themselves to more new lines of businesses. To reduce the overall
risk, the firms will not assume more financial risk and will use the
option of equity financing.
One other explanation may be that firms in Pakistan grow but at
lower rate. The internally generated funds are enough to finance the
expansion programmes and the firms do not have to resort to external
financing.
Of all the independent variables chosen for this study,
profitability has turn out to be the most statistically significant
determinant of capital structure in the context of Pakistan.
Profitability is negatively correlated with income. This suggests that
profitable firms in Pakistan use more of equity and less debt. This
supports the pecking order theory and also approves our earlier
hypothesis about profitability.
6. CONCLUSION
In this paper, we use pooled regression model of panel data
analysis to measure the determinants of capital structure in listed
Pakistani non-financial firms for five-year period. We use total debt
ratio divided by total assets as a proxy for leverage. We use four
independent variables to measure their effect on leverage.
The results show that assets tangibility is positively correlated
with debt; however, this relationship is not statistically significant.
We may conclude that asset structure does not matter in determination of
capital structure of Pakistani firms. This is in contrast to the
previous empirical studies by Titman and Wessels (1988); Rajah and
Zingales (1995) and Fama and French (2000) say that tangibility should
be an important determinant of leverage.
Size measured by taking log of sales is positively correlated with
leverage. This suggests that large firms will employ more debt. The
implication is that large firms consider themselves to have less chances
of falling into financial distress and have more capacity to absorb
shocks. One may also infer that fixed direct bankruptcy costs are
smaller for large firms as a percentage of their total value; that is
why they do not fear bankruptcy that much as the smaller firms do.
Facing lower bankruptcy costs, large firms take more debt.
Growth measured by the annual percentage change in total assets is
negatively correlated with leverage that supports the simple version of
pecking order theory that growing firms finance their investment
opportunities first by their internally generated funds. However this
does not support the extended version of pecking order theory.
Strong relationship was found between profitability and leverage.
Profitability as measured by net profit before taxes divided by total
assets is negatively correlated with leverage that supports the pecking
order theory.
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(1) Theoretically, total debt/total assets ratio should be less
than one or one at maximum. However, we find many firms especially in
textile industry with negative equity that explains why this ratio is
above one.
(2) Theoretically speaking, fixed assets/total assets too should be
lower than one. However, we use gross fixed assets/total assets ratio as
a measure of tangibility. Tangibility ratio of above one tells that the
firm has sufficient number of depreciated yet indisposed-off assets so
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Attaullah Shah is a Faculty Member at the Institute of Management
Sciences, Peshawar, completing his PhD studies at Muhammad Ali Jinnah
University, Islamabad. Tahir Hijazi is Dean and Faculty Member at
Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad.
Table 1
Potential Determinants of Capital Structure, Their Measures, and
Expected Relationship with Leverage
Expected
Effect on
Leverage
Determinant Measure (Proxy) (Hypothesis)
Tangibility Total Gross Fixed Assets/ Total Assets Positive
Size Log of Sale Negative
Growth Annual Percentage Change in Total Assets Positive
Profitability EBT/Total Assets Negative
Table 2
Five-years Summary of Descriptive Statistics
Leverage Tangibility Profitability
Mean 0.65 0.84 0.03
Median 0.63 0.84 0.03
Maximum 1.64 (1) 2.71 (2) 0.54
Minimum 0.04 0.05 (0.65)
Stan. Deviation 0.27 0.37 0.12
Size Growth
Mean 2.74 0.07
Median 2.74 0.02
Maximum 5.23 1.83
Minimum (0.30) (0.89)
Stan. Deviation 0.73 0.23
Table 3
Estimated Correlations between Independent Variables
Tang Profit Size Growth
Tang 1
Profit -0.27191 1
Size -0.23392 0.295909 1
Growth -0.15216 0.083498 0.128503 1
Table 4
Summary Output of the Regression Analysis
Independent
Variables Coefficient Std. Error t-Statistic p-value
Tang (TG) 0.0279 0.0212 1.3158 0.1885
Size (SZ) 0.0180 0.0103 1.7487 0.0806
Growth (GT) -0.0398 0.0173 -2.2981 0.0217
Profit (PF) -1.1069 0.0610 -18.1599 0.0000
R-square 0.25580 MS of
Regression 5.35758
Adjusted 0.25318 Sum square
R-square Regression 21.43032
Sum squared
Standard Error 0.23438 residuals 62.34771
F-statistic Total sum of
97.53130 square 83.77803
Prob 0.00000
(F-statistic)