Discounted Cash Flow Valuation - Cost of Equity

6 important questions on Discounted Cash Flow Valuation - Cost of Equity

What are the two forms of risk?

Firm-specific risk

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Explain diversification and two reasons why it impacts risk.

Expand your portfolio to include more than 1 asset, you reduce firm-specific risk for two reasons:

 

1) the effect of one company is smaller on your portfolio

2) companies can go good and bad (average out) 

Explain The Consistency Principle in cash flows and risk-free rates.

Value a mexican company in dollars? -> use the U.S. Treasury bond rate as Rf

Valuation done in real terms due unstable inflation? -> Cash flows with real and discount with real.

 

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The assumption that a government has no default risk cannot hold in some emerging economies. Name three ways we can deal with it.

1) Look at the largest and safest firms in the economy and at the rate they can borrow. Then use a rate just marginally lower (1% lower is reasonable)

2) Use the long-term dollar-denominated forward contracts on the currency, and then use interest rate parity and the Treasury bond rate to arrive at a riskless local currency rate.

3) Adjust the local currency government rate by the estimated default spread:

 

Riskless BR rate = Brazil government bond rate - default spread

 

Default spread depends on rating of the country (Aaa Baa Bbb) 

What are the three ways of estimating risk premiums?

1) Survey Premiums

2) Historical Premiums

3) Implied Equity Premiums

Why, when using historical premiums, do premiums differ in research done?

1. The time period used

2. The choice of the security (bonds or bills)

3. Arithmetic (simple mean) or geometric (compounded return)

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