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- May 17, 2017 at 9:53 pm #386766
Hi John,
Q1 of pilot paper states:
“Tramont Co’s quoted beta is 1.17…………it is estimated that the beta applicable to the project if it is all-equity financed will be 0.4 more than the current all-equity financed beta of Tramont Co”.
The resolution considers that 1.17 is equity beta and that beta applicable for the project is asset beta. My thought was exactly the other way around.
Could you please explain how 1.17 is not asset beta and beta applicable for the project is not equity beta in this question?
May 18, 2017 at 7:31 am #386794As I do state in my free lectures, when betas are quoted in the press etc., they are always the betas of the shares i.e. the equity betas.
For APV we always discount as though the project were all equity financed. If it is all equity financed then the equity beta for the project will be the same as the asset beta for the project – the only reason for the two betas ever being different it when there is gearing involved.
Have you watched my free lectures on CAPM?
May 18, 2017 at 11:50 am #386828Hi John,
Please tell me how moving the production to X-IT in Gamala would result in further risk diversification?May 18, 2017 at 4:47 pm #386867Investing in different counties is in itself diversifying risk. Different countries have different risk factors.
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