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ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up?

Value Scope

Click to Download: ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up? 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. The re-levered Beta for the private company we were valuing was 0.56. Executive Summary.

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

If you want to check out which industry group a company falls into, please click on this file (a very large one that may take a while to download) for that detail. Beta & Risk 1. The industry averages that I report are also provided using the regional breakdown above. Return on Equity 1. Debt Ratios & Fundamentals 1.

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Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question!

Musings on Markets

While much of the discussion of this measure gets mired in the capital asset pricing model, and the supposed adequacies and inadequacies of beta, I think that too much is made of it, and that the model is adaptable enough to allow for other measures of relative risk. Corporate Default Risk , i.e,

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Data Update 4 for 2022: Risk = Danger + Opportunity!

Musings on Markets

At the risk of provoking the ire of those who dislike portfolio theory, the most widely model for risk, in practice, is the capital asset pricing model, and beta is the relative risk measure. At the start of 2022, the ten sectors (US) with the highest and lowest relative risk (unlettered betas), are shown below.

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How to Value Pre-Revenue Startups

Equidam

Examples include: User Engagement: Metrics like user sign-ups, active usage rates (MAU/DAU), waitlist size, or downloads. Customer Validation: Positive feedback from pilot programs, successful beta tests, signed letters of intent (LOIs) from potential customers, or early adopter retention data.

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Is Terex the Right Industrial Sector Stock to Own to Ride the Economic Recovery?

Andrew Stolz

Download the full report as a PDF. The company is highly cyclical reflected in the above-average beta of 1.25x. Download the full report as a PDF. Highlights: Heavy gov’t spending on infrastructure drives top-line growth. Costs cuts to drive sustainably higher margins. Strong ROE and ROIC might be overlooked by the market.

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Tesla in November 2023 : Story twists and turns, with value consequences!

Musings on Markets

While an autopilot feature is packaged as a standard feature with Teslas, it offers FSD software, which is still in beta version , offers an enhanced autopilot model, albeit at a price of $12,000.

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