Abstract:
Profitability is a situation in which an entity is generating a profit. Profitability arises when
the aggregate amount of revenue is greater than the aggregate amount of expenses in a
reporting period. The primary goal of this study was to empirically investigate the determinants
factors of insurance company profitability in Ethiopian. A fixed effect regression model was use in
the investigation. Ten insurance companies were taken as a sample. The researcher used a
purposive sampling technique to select those Ten Ethiopian insurance companies. The data covers
from the period 2013-2022 were used for analysis. The data was collected from national banks of
Ethiopia, annual report of each insurance company and World Bank data. A Balanced
longitudinal/panel secondary data set were used in this study. Also, Explanatory research design,
quantitative research approach and positivism paradigm were employed to examine the effect of
explanatory variables (size of the company, age of the company, tangibility of asset, equity ratio,
liquidity ratio, cost efficiency, combined ratio, interest rate and inflation). The major findings of the
study revealed that interest rate and combined ratio negative and statistically significant effect on
Ethiopian insurance company profitability. Inflation rate has negative and insignificant effect on
profitability of insurance company. Whereas age of the company, tangibility of asset, equity ratio,
cost efficiency has positive and significant effect on Ethiopian insurance company profitability.
Finally company size has positive and insignificant effect on profitability of insurance company.