Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Rates of Return on Equities: Corporates’ perspective -- Chapter 3. Expected Rates of Return on Equity -- Chapter 4. Rates of Return on Equities: Investors’ Perspective -- Chapter 5. Rates of Returns: Disaggregative Analysis -- Chapter 6. Analysis of...

The purpose of this paper is to study the profitability of the 166 non-financial companies of the BSE 200 index with particular emphasis on a pre- and post-recession analysis for the period 2001-2011 with an attempt to link the profitability with the liquidity of the sample firms. The study...