Free Cash Flow, Debt Policy and Profitability: Analysis the Investment Opportunity Set

Abstract

The main purpose of investors investing in the capital market is to earn profits in the future. Investment is an alternative investment. If investors have excess funds, they will not let their funds idle. Funds can be invested in various forms, such as buying certain assets that tend to increase in price such as equipment, land, or gold or in the form of time deposits in banks, buying stocks and bonds in the financial market. The research objective to be achieved is to provide understanding and knowledge to the public, especially investors and creditors regarding free cash flow, debt policy, profitability and investment opportunity sets that can be used as a reference for further researchers as well as a reference for stakeholders (investors, creditors, and the government) in making decisions. relevant and reliable. The method used is quantitative research with secondary data taken from financial statements at idx with data collection techniques using purposive sampling method. Analysis of the data used is multiple linear regression with panel data. The population in this study is the property and real estate sub-sector listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, which was carried out for 3 years of observation, namely 2017-2019 totaling 120 data with 40 companies per year. The results showed that only the debt policy variable proxied by the debt equity ratio had a significant effect on the investment opportunity set, while the free cash flow and profitability variables proxied by the return on assets had an insignificant effect on the investment opportunity set.