International Journal of Business, Economics, and Social Development
Vol. 6 No. 4 (2025): International Journal of Business, Economics, and Social Development (IJBESD)

Analysis of Financial Ratios and ESG on Stock Returns with Firm Value as a Moderating Variable

Agustin, Sefhia (Unknown)
Febriyani, Diana (Unknown)
Mahadianto, Moh Yudi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
11 Oct 2025

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between financial ratios, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and the stock returns of 2020–2023 IDX ESG Leaders businesses, controlling for company valuation. We use a quantitative descriptive approach with a 26-company purposive sample. Using SPSS, we ran multiple linear regressions on the secondary data. In order to ensure that the findings are still valid, we eliminated one outlier. Stock returns are unaffected by ESG Disclosure, ROA, or DER, but are significantly impacted negatively by Current Ratio (CR). According to the moderation test, the impact of ROA on stock returns can only be mitigated by considering corporate value. Therefore, a high level of profitability backed by a solid firm value may make investors more interested. The research here is time-bound, and it relies on secondary ESG data. It would be wise to include more variables and data in the future. Investors and management may use these results as a benchmark for evaluating stock performance and highlighting the need of increasing business transparency and value.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijbesd

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Subject

Humanities Economics, Econometrics & Finance Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

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International Journal of Business, Economics and Social Development (IJBESD) is published 4 (four) times a year and is the flagship journal of the Research Collaboration Community (RCC). It is the aim of IJBESD to present papers which cover the theory, practice, history or methodology of Business, ...