THE NEXUS BETWEEN INVESTORS’ PERCEPTIONS AND PERFORMANCE OF QUOTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

We employed secondary data obtained from the company’s financial statements covering from

2012 to 2020 to empirically examined the nexus between investors’ perceptions and

performance of quoted manufacturing firms in Nigeria, a sampled of eight entities was used, and

the output revealed that, when the independent variables are combined, it has significant

impact on entity performance, however when separated it has no statistical significant impact on

entity performance, hence base on the output we can statistically say on the average investors’

perceptions has an impact on the performance of quoted manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Based

on the result from our examination, we therefore recommended that: Entities should focus more

in increasing shareholders wealth because it has a way of improving potential investors wealth’s;

Entities should maintain good corporate relationship with the corporate world because it has a

way of affecting its inflow of capital; Public sensitization should be done by enti