Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract the aims of this research is to analyze the influence of financial leverage, price earning ratio, dividend yield, firm value, and firm size on stock beta of manufacturing companies listed on indonesian stock exchange period 2010 – 2013. the population and sample used in this research are all manufacturing registered in the indonesian stock exchange period 2010 – 2013. samples are drawn by using purposive sampling method. from 132 companies that are consecutively listed as a manufacturing company for 4 years, only 22 companies meet the criteria of purposive sampling previously set by the researcher and therefore used as the sample. data are acquired from financial report published by the company. this research uses multiple regression analysis method to analyze the influence of independent variables on the dependent variable. significance level used is 95% (?=0.05). partial test (t-test) is used to analyze the partial influence of each independent variable on the dependent variable. stimulant test (f-test) is used to analyze the stimulating influence of the independent variable on the dependent variable. the result shows financial leverage has a negative insignificant influence on stock beta. the price earning ratio has a negative insignificant influence on stock beta. the dividend yield has a negative insignificant influence on stock beta. firm value has a positive insignificant influence on stock beta. firm size has a positive insignificant influence on stock beta. f –test shows that all independent variables simultaneously have no significant influence on stock beta. coefficient of determination result shows that all independent variables can only explain dependent variables for 3.2% keywords: dividend yield, financial leverage, firm size, firm value, price earning ratio, stock beta.