Does the Market React to Intellectual Capital, Capital Structure, Geopolitical Risk, and Cryptocurrency Impact?

The banking sector is a sector that is sensitive to information that occurs in a country or the world. However, banking shares are a long-term investment choice because it is believed that institutions and the state have an important function for the whole community, and of course, the government is the supervisor to keep a bank from experiencing operational failure. By using advanced technology, it is a signal that banking improves intellectual capital factor with strong skills and infrastructure to face the digitalization era. However, in the era of banking digitalization, conditions of future uncertainty and the emergence of digital currencies existence can survive the development of the capital market. This study aims to analyze how far the influence of internal aspects such as intellectual capital and capital structure and external such as geopolitical events and digital currency has on banking stock returns in 2016–2020. The results of this study are that capital structure and cryptocurrencies affect stock returns. This shows that investors consider healthy bank conditions and good capital management and also investors tend to diversify their portfolios by including bitcoin in promising investments even though the risks are considered high.