• Asad Raza

In this research study, I compared the relationship between the dividend policy of Indian Public Sector Banks and the Indian private sector banks from the shareholder’s point of view. The shareholders are free to invest in any sector. There is no legal or economical constrain on them to invest only in public sector banks. They are absolutely free to invest their money wherever they want. I examined whether it is beneficial for the shareholders to invest either in public sector banks or in the private sector banks. The analysis of my research study consists of 25 public sector banks and 11 private sector banks. So the total numbers of banks in my research study are 36 banks. My analysis of the research study consists on the data from the financial year 2002 – 2003 to financial year 2014 – 2015. I used the data of the first difference in my research study. To get the result of my data, I used descriptive statistics, correlation and panel data regression analysis. The evidence of my research study shows that in private sector banks there is more relationship between the shareholder’s wealth and the dividend policy than in the public sector banks. By considering the 4 independent variables used in the research study, the adjusted R2 value of private sector banks is more than the public banks with respect to the dependent variable, which shows the more relation between the shareholder’s wealth and the dividend policy in private sector banks than the public sector banks

Dividend policy, Dividend Payout Ratio, Return on Assets Ratio, Net Margin Ratio, Leverage Ratio, Public Sector Banks and Private sector banks

"A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DETERMINANTS OF DIVIDEND POLICY OF INDIAN PUBLIC & PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.1373-1379, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006238.pdf

"A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DETERMINANTS OF DIVIDEND POLICY OF INDIAN PUBLIC & PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp1373-1379, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006238.pdf