RESEARCH ARTICLE Risk and Return Analysis of Listed Financial Companies in Ghana (A Study of Cal Bank, Ecobank GH Ltd, Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB)) Gideon Kweku Appiah1*, Lin Lan Xiao1 1Central Michigan University, United States of America *Corresponding author: Gideon Kweku Appiah:
[email protected] Abstract: Citation: Appiah G.K., Xiao L.L. (2020) Risk and Return Analysis of Globally, Investors as well as businessmen and women are very Listed Financial Companies in optimistic about the future and therefore defer current use of Ghana( A Study of Cal Bank, Ecobank GH Ltd, Ghana resources for use at a later period with a higher expected rate of Commercial Bank ( GCB) and return. This is not so different in the case of Ghana. The main Standard Chartered Bank (SCB)). Open Science Journal 5(1) objective of the study is to analyse the risk and return of listed financial companies in Ghana. A sample of four financial Received: 22nd July 2019 companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (Cal Bank Limited, Ecobank Ghana Limited, GCB Bank Limited and th Accepted: 27 January 2020 Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited) were selected and nd Published: 2 March 2020 financial ratio (return on equity, return on asset, current ratio, quick ratio and financial leverage) computed using excel and Copyright: © 2020 This is an open access article under the terms of analyzed using STATA. The study fitted a Pooled Ordinary the Creative Commons Attribution Least Square (OLS) and Least Square Dummy Variable (LSDV) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction regression model with fixed effect model since fixed effect was in any medium, provided the tested to be statistically significant in the model.