The rapid spread of the Covid-19 outbreak certainly had a major impact on the Indonesian economy. The financial success of businesses involved in the transport sector is undoubtedly affected by this. This study aims to compare the financial performance of business actors in the transportation sector before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. To measure financial performance, the current ratio, return on assets, and return on equity will be used in this study. This type of research uses quantitative descriptive research. The population of this study includes all transportation-related companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange between 2019-2020. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling. Wilcoxon signed rank test and Paired Sample t-test were used to test the hypothesis. SPSS 25 software is used in data management in this study. The findings show that there is a significant difference in the financial performance of transportation companies in terms of liquidity and profitability ratios during a pandemic from the evaluation results of the mean difference test using the Wilcoxon signed rank test method for the variable current ratio and return on equity with the SPSS program. The profitability ratios measured using the variable return on assets also show that there is a significant difference between financial performance before and during the Covid-19 pandemic which was tested using a paired sample t-test.

Pandemi Covid-19 telah memaksa pemerintah untuk melakukan kebijakan penguncian wilayah dan pembatasan sosial secara masif. Hal tersebut berdampak pada kinerja keuangan perusahaan yang bergerak pada sektor transportasi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana kondisi kinerja keuangan sebelum dan sesudah pandemi covid-19 pada perusahaan yang bergerak di sektor transportasi. Kinerja keuangan diukur dengan menggunakan beberapa rasio, yaitu rasio likuiditas, rasio solvabilitas, rasio profitabilitas dan rasio pasar. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitaitf deskriptif. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh perusahaan transportasi yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia periode 2018-2021. Teknik pengambilan sampel dengan menggunakan metode purposive sampling sehinggan diperoleh 24 perusahaan sebagai sampel. Pengujian hipotesis dilakukan dengan menggunakan wilcoxon signed rank test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pada rasio likuiditas dan rasio profitabilitas terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan di antara periode sebelum dan periode sesudah kasus covid-19 terjadi di Indonesia. Sedangkan, pada rasio solvabilitas dan rasio pasar, tidak terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan di antara kedua periode tersebut.