Capital asset pricing model capm

15 important questions on Capital asset pricing model capm

Diversifiable/ unique/ unsystematic risk

Risk that can be diversified away in a large portfolio

Considering adding security to diversified portfolio

Individual only cares about portion of risk that cant be diversified away
it's assumed that investor is risk averse

Occuring problems when estimating beta of company

1. Sample size can be inadequate
2. Influenced by changes in financial leverage
3. Can vary over time
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Solutions to problems when estimating beta

1. Use of more sophisticated statistical techniques
2. Incorporation of fluctuations
3. Use of industry betas

Cyclical nature of revenues

-do well in expansion phase of business cycle
-perform poorly in contraction phase
-heavily impacted by overall economy

Higher beta values are associated with

Firms that have more cyclical revenues as beta refers to covariance of a security's return with market's return

Corporate discount rate

Called hurdle rate, cut off rate, benchmark rate, cost of capital

What do trading costs include

1. Brokerage fees, paid to execute trade
2. Bid ask spread, difference between selling price and buying price
3. Market impact costs, to compensate for risks. Transaction price can be lower if you need to take extra risks due to market impact costs.

Wider bid ask spread and higher trading costs  for all parties

When traders protect themselves by increasing selling price or decreasing buying price -> don't want this

Spread should be positively related to ratio of informed/uniformed traders

- informed traders pick off the market
- informed traders raise required return on equity, increases cost of capital

Generic strategies to lower trading costs, so lowering costs of capital

1. Buying in more uninformed investors
2. Disclose more information

Buying in more uninformed investors

Ratio of informed to uninformed investors will decrease, so lower adverse selection costs

Ongoing costs of maintaining public listing

Regulatory, corporate governance, professional fees, annual listing fees, trading costs.

Return on assets roa

Performance of company or business unit

Economic value added eva

Allows firm to decide whether firm should invest in project

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