A Window Analysis of Financial Performance of the Tehran Stock Exchange Industries Using a Hybrid WASPAS, PROMETHEE II and ELECTRE III Approach

One of the most difficult decisions for private/intuitional investors of stock exchange market is finding the best combination of shares (portfolio) which meets their financial expectations. Therefore, a systematic performance evaluation of companies in stock exchange is a critical prerequisite for their investment. By developing a combined multi, criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach; this research aims to help investors in evaluating Tehran stock exchange industries. To this regard, after determining the weight of the five main criteria in financial performance evaluation of the stock exchange listed companies using analytical network process (ANP), WASPAS, PROMETHEE II and ELECTRE III methods, the listed industries in Tehran stock exchange were ranked during a 10 years period (2011 to 2020). Next, the results of the applied methods combined for each year using Borda aggregating method and the ranks of the industries in each year were calculated. Finally, using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, the outputs of the applied methods compared with the rank of Borda method. According to the results, ranking of the ELECTRE III method has the highest correlation with Borda method. Therefore, ranking of the ELECTRE III method selected as the best ranking.