Multicriteria Estimated Cost of Equity Capital

The estimation of the cost of equity capital is a key input to the capital budgeting process when the firm uses internal financing. Financial analyst and managers usually utilize the CAPM to estimate the cost of equity which requires both measurement of the market risk premium and estimation of beta...

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Autores:
Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Betancur
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Fecha de publicación:
2019
Institución:
Universidad EAFIT
Repositorio:
Repositorio EAFIT
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/14015
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10784/14015
Palabra clave:
Financial Decision Making
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Cost of Equity
Non Traded Firms
Market Risk Premium
Beta
Business Risk
Private Risk
Neural Firings
Valuation.
Toma de Decisiones Financieras
Proceso Analítico de Jerarquías
Costo del Capital Propio
Empresas No Transadas en Bolsa
Beta
Riesgo de Negocio
Riesgo Privado
Impulsos Neuronales
Valoración.
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Copyright © 2009 Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Betancur
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Summary:The estimation of the cost of equity capital is a key input to the capital budgeting process when the firm uses internal financing. Financial analyst and managers usually utilize the CAPM to estimate the cost of equity which requires both measurement of the market risk premium and estimation of beta. For publicly traded firms, calculating the cost of equity is entirely based on information from the financial markets. Non traded firms and small businesses do not have sufficient market based information. This article proposes a multicriteria model to determine the cost of equity for non traded firms. The Analytic Hierarchy Process developed by Thomas Saaty is the proposed methodology for deriving relative priorities of tangible and intangible corporate risk factors. The model requires business managers to identify the relevant information sources for the required input data. The inconsistencies checking mechanism within the AHP model allows management to identify inconsistencies, to revise prior judgments and to synthesize coherently.