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  2. Capital asset pricing model - Wikipedia

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    An estimation of the CAPM and the security market line (purple) for the Dow Jones Industrial Average over 3 years for monthly data. In finance, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is a model used to determine a theoretically appropriate required rate of return of an asset, to make decisions about adding assets to a well-diversified portfolio.

  3. What is the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)? - AOL

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    CAPM is a theoretical representation of how financial markets behave and can estimate a company’s cost of equity capital, which is the return investors demand from the stock. CAPM formula Here ...

  4. Asset pricing - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] The CAPM, for example, can be derived by linking risk aversion to overall market return, and restating for price. [9] Black-Scholes can be derived by attaching a binomial probability to each of numerous possible spot-prices (i.e. states) and then rearranging for the terms in its formula. See Financial economics § Uncertainty.

  5. Cost of equity - Wikipedia

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    Such costs are separated into a firm's cost of debt and cost of equity and attributed to these two kinds of capital sources. A firm's overall cost of capital, which consists of the two types of capital costs, is then determined as the weighted average cost of capital. Knowing a firm's cost of capital is needed in order to make better decisions.

  6. Consumption-based capital asset pricing model - Wikipedia

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    The CAPM can be derived from the following special cases of the CCAPM: (1) a two-period model with quadratic utility, (2) two-periods, exponential utility, and normally-distributed returns, (3) infinite-periods, quadratic utility, and stochastic independence across time, (4) infinite periods and log utility, and (5) a first-order approximation ...

  7. Cost of capital - Wikipedia

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    In economics and accounting, the cost of capital is the cost of a company's funds (both debt and equity), or from an investor's point of view is "the required rate of return on a portfolio company's existing securities". [1]

  8. Financial economics - Wikipedia

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    DCF valuation formula, where the value of the firm, is its forecasted free cash flows discounted to the present using the weighted average cost of capital, i.e. cost of equity and cost of debt, with the former (often) derived using the below CAPM.

  9. Business valuation - Wikipedia

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    The debt cost is essentially the company's after tax interest rate; the cost of equity, as discussed below, is typically calculated via the CAPM, but often employing an alternative method. The resultant discount rate is used for cases where the overall cashflows are discounted—i.e. as opposed to the cashflows to equity —and is thus applied ...