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This research applies factor analysis, cluster analysis, and regression analysis to evaluate the financial rates of 24 Taiwan life insurance companies from 2008 to 2010, The empirical results are : First, apply factor analysis to reduce financial rates into two indices, which are defined as “profitability” and “invest performance index”, then apply cluster analysis to cluster life insurance companies into three clusters by the two indices, and apply ANOVA to analyze and compare the diversities between these three clusters. Second, adding three operation capability independent variables and apply regression analysis to explore the relations between operation capability and profitability, we find that the profitability can be effectively predicted by market share, debt to capital ratio, and capital utilization rate, it shows that market share is positively related to profitability and capital utilization rate is negatively related to profitability.
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