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Session 6: Measuring Relative Risk (Equity) and Cost of Debt

Podcast: Aswath Damodaran · Aswath Damodaran

Opublikowano: 2026-10-18

In today’s class, we started by reviewing the pitfalls of regression betas and went on to talk about bottom up betas, focusing on defining comparable firms and expanding the sample. I did make a big deal about bottom up betas, but may have still not convinced you or left you hazy about some of the details. If so, I thought it might be simpler to just send you a document that I put together on the top ten questions that you may have or get asked about bottom up betas. I think it covers pretty much all of th...