Calculating Betas

Ignacio Velez-Pareja ()

No 8085, Proyecciones Financieras y Valoración from Master Consultores

Abstract: This teaching note shows the relationship between levered and unlevered betas and the general formulation for the cost of equity. It also shows, step by step, the procedure to estimate betas from data found in the stock market.It shows well known procedures for estimating betas: correlation coefficient and standard deviations of the stock and the market, covariance between stock and market and market variance and ordinary least squares (numerical and graphical).This written material is useful for practitioners, teachers and students of Corporate Finance.

Keywords: Betas; beta calculation; stock returns; market returns; systematic risk. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G10 G11 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12
Date: 2001-02-28
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