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Discount Rate—Explanation, Definition and Examples

Valutico

Different types of discount rates such as risk-free rate, cost of equity, or cost of debt, are used contextually in financial analysis. The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method uses the discount rate to consider all future cash flows of a business when calculating its current value.

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Modeling Managers as EPS Maximizers

Reynolds Holding

In business schools, managers are taught to maximize the net present value (NPV) of future cash flows. We can broadly classify firms’ corporate behaviors into two categories: growth and value firms. Growth firms will issue equity to pay for acquisitions; value firms won’t.