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Table 1

Descriptive statistics of the variables

	N		Mean	Median	Std. Deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis	Minimum	Maximum
	Valid	Missing	Mean	Median	Std. Deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis	Minimum	Maximum
Tobin's Q	2,227	503	1.58	1.33	0.82	1.15	0.559	0.28	3.69
Derivatives total (ZAR)	783	1,947	154,278	27,344	299,158	2.57	5.610	220	1,179,827
Total assets (ZAR)	2,398	332	9,638,881	2,121,024	16,040,889	2.07	3.154	130	58,580,710
Current ratio	2,377	353	1.84	1.51	1.10	1.38	1.377	0.01	4.84
Dividend yield	1,552	1,178	3.64	3.26	1.94	0.86	0.349	0.14	8.51
Leverage: debt/assets	2,730	0	33	33	29	23	−1.331	0.00	85
Foreign sales/sales	973	1757	33.9	24.39	28.12	0.82	−0.554	0.01	92.59
RD/sales	415	2,315	0.28	0.17	0.29	1.37	1.126	0.01	1.07
ROA	2,316	414	8.67	8.64	9.22	−0.32	0.313	−13.08	26.58

	N		Mean	Median	Std. Deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis	Minimum	Maximum
	Valid	Missing	Mean	Median	Std. Deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis	Minimum	Maximum
Tobin's Q	2,227	503	1.58	1.33	0.82	1.15	0.559	0.28	3.69
Derivatives total (ZAR)	783	1,947	154,278	27,344	299,158	2.57	5.610	220	1,179,827
Total assets (ZAR)	2,398	332	9,638,881	2,121,024	16,040,889	2.07	3.154	130	58,580,710
Current ratio	2,377	353	1.84	1.51	1.10	1.38	1.377	0.01	4.84
Dividend yield	1,552	1,178	3.64	3.26	1.94	0.86	0.349	0.14	8.51
Leverage: debt/assets	2,730	0	33	33	29	23	−1.331	0.00	85
Foreign sales/sales	973	1757	33.9	24.39	28.12	0.82	−0.554	0.01	92.59
RD/sales	415	2,315	0.28	0.17	0.29	1.37	1.126	0.01	1.07
ROA	2,316	414	8.67	8.64	9.22	−0.32	0.313	−13.08	26.58

Source(s): Own compilation