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Aswath Damodaran Session 10 (Undergraduate): Bottom Up Betas

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Aswath Damodaran Session 10 (Undergraduate): Bottom Up Betas

Published on Mar 1, 2016

In this session, we at how to estimate the beta for not only a company but its individual businesses by building up to a beta, rather than trusting a single regression. With Disney, we estimated a beta for each of the five businesses it was in, a collective beta for Disney’s operating businesses and a beta for Disney as a company (including its cash). We closed the session by extending the concept to private businesses
Slides: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/po…
Post class test: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pd…
Post class test solution: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pd…

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