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Aswath Damodaran Session 9 (MBA): Bottom up Betas

 

Published on Mar 2, 2016

In this session, we looked 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).
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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