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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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Announcement: Valutico Provides Easier Way to Value Startups

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What data is used for the companies ‘comps’ comparisons? While the DCF also discounts future cash flows to a present value today, it does so using discount rates typically calculated using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (either Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) or Cost of Equity (CoE)).

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Discounted-Cash-Flow-Analysis: Your Complete Guide with Examples

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the asset-based approach also known as the cost-based approach, and finally 3. the multiple based or ‘ comps ’ (comparable company analysis) approach. d is the discount rate (which is usually the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), r in our previous example). Ce = Cost of Equity. B = Beta. (Rm

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ESG A Valuation Framework

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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. There are also methods to use Beta to assess a private company, if the Guideline Public Companies selected for the analysis, the “comps,” are chose properly.