Market Reaction to Dividend Announcement during the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Indonesian Stock Exchange

This research uses Average Abnormal Return and Trading Volume Activity to test the market reaction around the dividend announcement date. Tests using these two parameters are expected to provide a more comprehensive description of market reactions. This research is quantitative research using secondary data. Even study method with a window period of 5 days before and 5 days after the dividend announcement date. Abnormal returns were calculated using a market model for 252 dividend announcement events on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2020. The sample was determined using purposive sampling technique and data analysis using the IBM SPSS Statistics 25.0 application. The research results show that there is a market reaction in terms of abnormal returns and differences in trading volume activity when cash dividends are announced during the Covid-19 pandemic. The announcement of an increase in the value of cash dividends and a decrease in the value of cash dividends during the pandemic caused a market reaction characterized by a significant positive average abnormal return. Meanwhile, for the announcement of the provision of dividends and the elimination of dividends, there were no significant average abnormal returns and no significant differences in trading volume activity.