FACTORS AFFECTING THE SHARE PRICE OF NEPALESE JOINT VENTURES COMMERCIAL BANKS

The study intended to examine the factors affecting the share price of Nepalese joint ventures commercial banks. Market price per share is selected as dependent variable while earning per share, price earnings ratio, book value per share, return on assets and size were chosen as firm specific independent variables. In order to fulfill these objectives the data were collected from the banking and financial statistics and annual report published by Nepal Rastra Bank and annual report of selected banks which is based on panel data over 11 years of period from 2012 to 2022 of selected five commercial joint venture banks of Nepal.The Descriptive and casual relationship research design has been used using secondary data. The multiple regression models were estimated to test impact of firm specific factors on share price of Nepalese joint venture commercial banks, results shows that variables like earnings per share, price earnings ratio, book value per share and return on assets are the major determining stock price having significant impact on price of share except size of firm having insignificant impact in context of joint venture commercial banks of Nepal.