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Prediction of Financial Distress on Properties and Real Estate in Indonesia

Financial distress is a stage of decline in financial conditions which occurred before the onset of bankruptcy. This study was conducted with the aim of knowing the effect of Operating Capacity, Sales Growth, and Debt to Equity Ratio in predicting Financial Distress in property and real estate companies on Indonesian Stock Exchange in 2018-2020. The research method which is used is quantitative research. The sampling technique used purposive sampling method, namely the selection of samples with criteria that have been determined by the researcher. The data used is secondary data in the form of financial statements of property and real estate companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange for the 2018-2020 period. The companies selected as the research sample were 38 companies so that the total observations were 114 observations. Financial distress is included as dummy variable, and it is categorized as 1 (one) for companies which experiencing financial distress and 0 (zero) for companies which is not experiencing in financial distress. The result of this study shows that operating capacity sales growth and debt to equity ratio do not affect the company’s probability of experiencing financial distress.