Priviet Social Sciences Journal
Vol. 6 No. 8 (2026): August 2026

Asset turnover and firm value in Indonesian telecommunications: Panel evidence and robustness tests in 2021-2024

Arrohmah Qurniawati Husna Putri (Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Asahan)
Nisfu Fhitri (Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Asahan)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Aug 2026

Abstract

This study re-examines the association between total asset turnover and firm value in Indonesian telecommunications after accounting for the panel structure, business-model heterogeneity, leverage, outliers, and temporal ordering. The revision replaces the complete-case design with an unbalanced panel covering 20 of the 22 firms in the Indonesian telecommunications population. The primary Price-to-Book Value (PBV) panel contains 72 firm-year observations for 2021-2024; firm-years with non-positive book equity are omitted only where PBV is not economically interpretable. Pooled OLS with year and business-category effects, firm fixed effects, random effects, and a Mundlak correlated-random-effects specification are compared. HC3 inference, a firm-block bootstrap, winsorisation, lagged ratios, leave-one-firm-out tests, and alternative profitability and valuation measures are reported. The first-submission negative turnover coefficient is not robust across PBV panel specifications: the pooled HC3 estimate is b = -0.101 (p = .879), while fixed- and random-effects estimates are also imprecise. A negative association is stronger for enterprise-value-to-sales, but this does not establish that low turnover is a growth signal. The revised conclusion is therefore limited to specification-dependent conditional associations rather than causal market preferences or investment returns.

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PSSJ

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Economics, Econometrics & Finance Education Environmental Science Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Social Sciences

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