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ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up?

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This work can be used to reconcile and support an adjustment to the CAPM, then the WACC, via Alpha and Beta. Adjustments to Beta can accomplish this. Beta measures systemic risk, and the performance of a company as compared with a broad index like the S&P 500 or the Russell 2000. Using Alpha, however, it could be done.

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ESG A Valuation Framework

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Eight years ago, an article in the Financial Times quoted the infamous management consultant Peter Drucker in the context of corporate reporting of ESG related topics: “What gets measured gets managed.” Adjustments to Beta can accomplish this. The re-levered Beta for the private company we were valuing was 0.56.