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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. What about stock price?

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ESG A Valuation Framework

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How do you justify making substantial investments and fundamental changes to corporate structures and culture without empirical evidence that it will make a direct impact on shareholder value, total shareholder return, net present value, and individual rates of return? . Adjustments to Beta can accomplish this.