Enhancing financial capability through mergers and acquisitions activities in enterprises

The research aims to propose solutions for mergers between Vietnamese securities companies to improve the financial capacity of securities companies currently operating on the Vietnam Stock Exchange - VNX (HNX, HoSE and Upcom exchanges). Through research samples collected from 27 Vietnamese securities companies in the period from 2014 to 2021, secondary data are audited financial statements and financial safety reports. By using the quantitative research method of principal component analysis PCA (Principal Component Analysis) and K-means (cluster) analysis on SPSS 20 software.