Palm oil is a commodity that has many functions and needs, both for household and
industrial scale. Especially, with the conversion program fossil fuel energy sources to
biodiesel using palm oil feedstock. Indonesian oil palm plantations have a fairly broad.
Productivity and efficiency of processing of palm oil in Indonesia is quite good. This
has become one of the factors of attraction for investors to invest in the shares of the oil
palm company. According Ramasamy et al (2005), there are several factors that affect
the performance of the oil companies, among others, the level of ownership, size,
capital intensity, growth, leverage, and price. The purpose of this study was to examine
the influence of age, capital, growth, leverage, size, price toward palm oil company
performance period 2006 – 2013.
This study was conducted using quantitative method and panel data regression analysis,
where age, capital, growth, leverage, size, price is an independent variable, while the
company's performance as the dependent variable. The study population was 15 oil
palm companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2006 to 2013, and as many
as seven companies selected sample of oil palm, while the data collection is done with
the secondary data is the observation and recording of the company's financial
statements.
The results showed that the capital intensity and growth significant effect on ROA,
while age, leverage, size, and price no significant effect on ROA. Furthermore, age,
capital, growth, leverage, size, pricesimultaneously significant effect on ROA, thus it
can be concluded that the management company needs to implement these six factors
proportionally in order to increase ROA
Keywords: Company Performance, Age, Capital, Growth, Leverage, Size, Price, Palm
Oil
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