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BVR
MARCH 28, 2022
Company-specific risk is not an ideal name for this risk. All firms face company-specific risks, many of which are somewhat similar across industries and companies. For example, how many firms have you valued that had to deal with the risk of customer concentration? company-specific riskIs anything “company-specific” per se?
Andrew Stolz
AUGUST 4, 2020
Definition of Equity Risk Premium. It is the difference between expected returns from the stock market and the expected returns from risk-free investments. What Impacts the Equity Risk Premium? How Do You Calculate Equity Risk Premium?
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Gross Mendelsohn
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Understanding risk factors is essential in determining how a business will be valued. Let’s consider what your business-owning clients need to know about company-specific risks and how they come into play when it’s time for a business valuation.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 21, 2023
It is the nature of stocks that you have good years and bad ones, and much as we like to forget about the latter during market booms, they recur at regular intervals, if for no other reason than to remind us that risk is not an abstraction, and that stocks don't always win, even in the long term.
Musings on Markets
JULY 13, 2022
It has been my practice for the last two decades to take a detailed look at how risk varies across countries, once at the start of the year and once mid-year. There are several services that attempt to estimate composite country risk scores, incorporating the multiple factors.
Musings on Markets
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
In a third post on July 1, 2022 , I pointed to inflation as a key culprit in the retreat of risk capital, i.e., capital invested in the riskiest segments of every market, and presented evidence of the impact on risk premiums (bond default spreads and equity risk premiums) in markets.
Musings on Markets
JULY 1, 2022
In this post, I will argue that almost everything that we are observing in markets, across asset classes, can be explained by a pull back on risk capital, and that understanding the magnitude of the pull back, and putting in historical perspective, is key to gauging what is coming next.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 20, 2021
The Price of Risk The price of risk is what investors demand as a premium, an extra return over and above what they can make on a guaranteed investment (risk free), to invest in a risky asset. Does the price of risk have to be positive?
Appraisal Rights
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Part of the argument focused on the concept of size premium – a primer on which is available here – and which is being contested in the SWS appeal. Equity Risk Premium Fair Value Merger Price Size PremiumWe’ve written before about the SWS appraisal case, decided in mid 2017. After the ruling, petitioners appealed to the Delaware Supreme Court. On Wednesday, February 21, the Delaware Supreme Court held oral argument (which you can watch on this site ).
Appraisal Rights
JUNE 5, 2017
In selecting the appropriate equity risk premium, the court observed that whether to use supply-side or historical ERP should be determined on a case-by-case basis. Beta Comparable Companies Discounted Cash Flow Analysis Equity Risk Premium Fair Value Interest on Appraised Value Merger Price Perpetuity Growth Rate Size Premium
Equilest
JANUARY 3, 2023
Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) is a financial model that describes how the price of an asset is determined by a number of factors or "risk factors." The theory suggests that the expected return on an asset can be modeled as a linear function of various macroeconomic factors or "factor loadings" that affect the asset's risk, such as market risk, industry risk, and country risk. First, we need to estimate the factor loadings for each risk factor.
Musings on Markets
MAY 6, 2022
As treasury rates have risen, markets also seem to have been more wary about risk, and how it is being priced. Inflation Price of Risk S&P 500The nature of markets is that they are never quite settled, as investors recalibrate expectations constantly and reset prices.
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
In the first few weeks of 2022, we have had repeated reminders from the market that risk never goes away for good, even in the most buoyant markets, and that when it returns, investors still seem to be surprised that it is there. What is risk? Hurdle Rates Risk
Andrew Stolz
AUGUST 5, 2020
It helps an investor understand what to expect to earn in relation to the risk-free rate and the market return. CAPM assumes that the minimum a rational investor would earn is the risk-free rate by buying the risk-free asset. Definition of Capital Asset Pricing Model.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 6, 2023
When valuing or analyzing a company, I find myself looking for and using macro data (risk premiums, default spreads, tax rates) and industry-level data on profitability, risk and leverage. High-Low Price Risk Measure 5. Equty Risk Premiums, by Country 4.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 30, 2023
Just as rising equity risk premiums push up the cost of equity, rising default spreads push up the cost of debt of companies, with the added complication of higher default risk for those companies that had pushed to the limits of their borrowing capacity in a low interest-rate environment.
Musings on Markets
JULY 27, 2022
That opening day glow lasted for the rest of 2021, abetted by easy access to risk capital, and the stock maintained its lofty pricing. On July 21, 2021, I valued Zomato just ahead of its initial public offering at about ? 41 per share.
Andrew Stolz
AUGUST 6, 2020
It is a model based on the linear relationship between an asset’s expected risk and return. Both the theories explain the relationship between expected return and risk; although, the arbitrage pricing theory is harder to implement. The risk-free rate is 5%.
ThomsonReuters
MAY 6, 2021
The Codification may require the use of a risk-free rate in some places and a risk-adjusted rate in others. For instance, a public company may be required to use a risk-adjusted rate, whereas a private company may be permitted to use a risk-free rate to reduce complexity.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 8, 2022
In short, and at the risk of stating the obvious, having access to data is a benefit but it is not a panacea to every problem. I extend my equity risk premium approach to cover other countries, using sovereign default spreads as my starting point, at this link.
Musings on Markets
MARCH 19, 2022
Bond Markets and Default Risk In times of trouble, the first to panic are often lenders to the entities involved, and in today's markets, the extent of the reaction to country-level troubles can be captured in real time in the sovereign CDS (Credit Default Swap) markets. Country Risk Crisis
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 26, 2023
As I noted in my last post , rising risk free rates and equity risk premiums have pushed up the costs of equity for all companies, and Tesla is not only no exception but is perhaps even more exposed as an above-average risk company.
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
In making these allocation or investment decisions, businesses have to make judgments on the minimum return that they would accept on an investment, given its risk, and that minimum return is referenced as the hurdle rate. Data Update 2 for 2021: The Price of Risk!
Simply Treasury
AUGUST 2, 2022
The definition of "net equity" is as follows: equity of the company = sum of subscribed capital, share premiums, revaluation reserves, reserves and retained earnings, minus the tax value of the company's holdings in associated companies and the tax value of its own shares.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 9, 2021
By focusing so much attention on a small subset of companies, you risk developing tunnel vision, especially when doing peer group comparisons. It is true that the Turkish company will face more risk because of its location, but that is an issue separate from currency.
Valutico
JULY 7, 2022
Market risk premium and risk free rate are both somewhat lower for the American firm than for the Arab oil company. Apple vs. Saudi Aramco – the most valuable companies in the world. Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 7 July 2022. Valuation Apple: click here.
Equilest
JULY 31, 2022
To evaluate a company's value, using the cash flow discounting method, the future cash flows that the firm will generate must be estimated and capitalized at a discount rate appropriate to the firm's risk. The firm's risk assessment is done by calculating the weighted average capital price, which weighs the cost of debt (foreign capital) and the cost of equity. What is Beta in Finance, and why is it essential for a business valuation?
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 27, 2022
Corporate Bonds: No Shortage of Risk Capital In my last post, I chronicled the movement in the equity risk premium, i.e. the price of risk in the equity market, during 2021, but the bond market has its own, and more measurable, price of risk in the form of corporate default spreads.
Musings on Markets
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Risk : When I valued Tesla last in early 2020, I used a cost of capital of 7%, reflecting a risk free rate of 1.75% and an equity risk premium of 5.2%
Musings on Markets
MARCH 28, 2022
Since one of ESG's sales pitches has been that following it’s precepts would insulate companies and investors from the risks emanating from bad corporate behavior, both ESG advocates and critics have looked to its performance in this crisis, to get a measure of its worth.
Musings on Markets
MAY 24, 2021
As inflation comes in above expectation, corporate borrowing rates will go up, and those higher interest rates can increase the risk of default across all corporate borrowers. Consequently, as inflation increases, equity risk premiums will tend to increase.
Musings on Markets
MAY 11, 2021
With stocks, I compute this pre-personal tax return at the start of every month, using the current level of index and expected cash flows to back out an internal rate of return; this is the basis for the implied equity risk premium.
ThomsonReuters
APRIL 7, 2021
Simply put, the higher the discount rate, the greater the risk associated with achieving your value projections, which amounts to a decreased valuation. Uncategorized Accounting Auditing Coronavirus COVID-19 Risk Management US Securities and Exchange Commission
Andrew Stolz
MARCH 20, 2020
The cost of equity (Ke) is an expected return that a firm pays to an equity investor to compensate for the risk of investing capital. The formula implies the return an investor expects from a risk-free investment plus the return from the stock in relation to market volatility.
Musings on Markets
MARCH 25, 2021
Every time a Federal Reserve chair or any of the FOMC members make utterances that undercut that credibility, the Fed risks losing even the limited signaling power it continues to have. Risk premiums No effect or even a decrease.
Valutico
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Let’s say the discount rate, using the WACC, is 12% (so, this is a risky business – the higher the WACC, the riskier the business as investors expect to be compensated for taking on additional risk). Rf = Risk-free Rate. Rm – Rf) = Equity Market Risk Premium.
Equilest
MARCH 17, 2022
This result over several years is then valued by discounting, at a discount rate, symboled by i, taking into account the risk that this performance will not be achieved. We note that the higher the expected rate (in other words, the greater the risk is perceived as necessary, to the point of requiring a substantial "risk premium"), the lower the multiple that will apply and therefore the lower valuation: we buy cheaper which is less safe.
Musings on Markets
JULY 22, 2021
Risk Profile : If you did not believe my assertions about the pointlessness of risk sections in IPOs, please do read all 30 pages of Zomato's risk profile (pages 39-68 of the prospectus). A Big Market Premium?
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 27, 2021
In my last post , I described the wild ride that the price of risk took in 2020, with equity risk premiums and default spreads initially sky rocketing, as the virus led to global economic shutdowns, and then just as abruptly dropping back to pre-crisis levels over the course of the year.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 12, 2021
Thus, you and I can disagree about whether beta is a good measure of risk, but not on the principle that no matter what definition of risk you ultimately choose, riskier investments need higher hurdles than safer investments.
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