“…Specifically, board independence, earnings persistence, and earnings predictability were found to have a positive significant effect on market capitalization, while gender diversity also exerted positive effect but was not statistically significant. The Fstatistics showed that the combined explanatory variables of board independence, gender diversity, earnings persistence, and earnings predictability had a positive effect on market capitalization, which is consistent with the findings of the studies by Tiep Le and Nguyen (2022), Ebimobowei (2022), Marie et al (2021), Boshnak (2021), Khanifah et al (2020), Ali et al (2020), andOchego et al (2019) who reported similar positive effects of corporate governance of firm's value and performance. However, the results of this study were insistent with the report of Aguguom et al (2019), which found a positive but insignificant effect of board independence on firm value.…”