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ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up?

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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. It started sometime last year, during the fourth quarter. Adjustments to Beta can accomplish this. Executive Summary.

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ESG A Valuation Framework

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It started sometime last year, during the fourth quarter. 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. The re-levered Beta for the private company we were valuing was 0.56.