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RelativeRiskMeasures
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TheCAPMBeta:TheMostUsed(andMisused)RiskMeasure
¨ Thestandardprocedureforestimatingbetasistoregressstockreturns(Rj)againstmarketreturns(Rm)-Rj =a+bRmwhereaistheinterceptandbistheslopeoftheregression.
¨ Theslopeoftheregressioncorrespondstothebetaofthestock,andmeasurestheriskinessofthestock.
¨ Thisbetahasthreeproblems:• Ithashighstandarderror• Itreflectsthefirm’sbusinessmixovertheperiodofthe
regression,notthecurrentmix• Itreflectsthefirm’saveragefinancialleverageovertheperiod
ratherthanthecurrentleverage.
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Unreliable,whenitlooksbad..
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Orwhenitlooksgood..
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Onesliceofhistory..83
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During this time period, Valeant was a stock under siege, without a CEO, under legal pressure & lacking financials.
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Andsubjecttogameplaying84
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MeasuringRelativeRisk:Youdon’tlikebetasormodernportfoliotheory?Noproblem.
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Don’tlikethediversifiedinvestorfocus,butokaywithprice-basedmeasures
1. RelativeStandardDeviation• RelativeVolatility=Std devofStock/AverageStd devacrossallstocks• Capturesallrisk,ratherthanjustmarketrisk
2. ProxyModels• Lookathistoricalreturnsonallstocksandlookforvariablesthat
explaindifferencesinreturns.• Youare,ineffect,runningmultipleregressionswithreturnson
individualstocksasthedependentvariableandfundamentalsaboutthesestocksasindependentvariables.
• Thisapproachstartedwithmarketcap(thesmallcapeffect)andoverthelasttwodecadeshasaddedothervariables(momentum,liquidityetc.)
3. CAPMPlusModels• StartwiththetraditionalCAPM(Rf +Beta(ERP))andthenaddother
premiumsforproxies.
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Don’tliketheprice-basedapproach..
1. Accountingriskmeasures:Totheextentthatyoudon’ttrustmarket-pricedbasedmeasuresofrisk,youcouldcomputerelativeriskmeasuresbasedon• Accountingearningsvolatility:Computeanaccountingbetaorrelative
volatility• Balancesheetratios:Youcouldcomputeariskscorebaseduponaccounting
ratioslikedebtratiosorcashholdings(akintodefaultriskscoresliketheZscore)
2. QualitativeRiskModels:Inthesemodels,riskassessmentsarebasedatleastpartiallyonqualitativefactors(qualityofmanagement).
3. Debtbasedmeasures:Youcanestimateacostofequity,baseduponanobservablecostsofdebtforthecompany.• Costofequity=Costofdebt*Scalingfactor• Thescalingfactorcanbecomputedfromimpliedvolatilities.
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DeterminantsofBetas&RelativeRisk
Beta of Firm (Unlevered Beta)
Beta of Equity (Levered Beta)
Nature of product or service offered by company:Other things remaining equal, the more discretionary the product or service, the higher the beta.
Operating Leverage (Fixed Costs as percent of total costs):Other things remaining equal the greater the proportion of the costs that are fixed, the higher the beta of the company.
Financial Leverage:Other things remaining equal, the greater the proportion of capital that a firm raises from debt,the higher its equity beta will be
Implications1. Cyclical companies should have higher betas than non-cyclical companies.2. Luxury goods firms should have higher betas than basic goods.3. High priced goods/service firms should have higher betas than low prices goods/services firms.4. Growth firms should have higher betas.
Implications1. Firms with high infrastructure needs and rigid cost structures should have higher betas than firms with flexible cost structures.2. Smaller firms should have higher betas than larger firms.3. Young firms should have higher betas than more mature firms.
ImplciationsHighly levered firms should have highe betas than firms with less debt.Equity Beta (Levered beta) = Unlev Beta (1 + (1- t) (Debt/Equity Ratio))
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Inaperfectworld…wewouldestimatethebetaofafirmbydoingthefollowing
Start with the beta of the business that the firm is in
Adjust the business beta for the operating leverage of the firm to arrive at the unlevered beta for the firm.
Use the financial leverage of the firm to estimate the equity beta for the firmLevered Beta = Unlevered Beta ( 1 + (1- tax rate) (Debt/Equity))
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Adjustingforoperatingleverage…
¨ Withinanybusiness,firmswithlowerfixedcosts(asapercentageoftotalcosts)shouldhavelowerunleveredbetas.Ifyoucancomputefixedandvariablecostsforeachfirminasector,youcanbreakdowntheunleveredbetaintobusinessandoperatingleveragecomponents.¤ Unleveredbeta=Purebusinessbeta*(1+(Fixedcosts/Variablecosts))
¨ Thebiggestproblemwithdoingthisisinformational.Itisdifficulttogetinformationonfixedandvariablecostsforindividualfirms.
¨ Inpractice,wetendtoassumethattheoperatingleverageoffirmswithinabusinessaresimilarandusethesameunleveredbetaforeveryfirm.
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Adjustingforfinancialleverage…
¨ Conventionalapproach:Ifweassumethatdebtcarriesnomarketrisk(hasabetaofzero),thebetaofequityalonecanbewrittenasafunctionoftheunleveredbetaandthedebt-equityratiobL =bu (1+((1-t)D/E))Insomeversions,thetaxeffectisignoredandthereisno(1-t)intheequation.
¨ DebtAdjustedApproach:Ifbetacarriesmarketriskandyoucanestimatethebetaofdebt,youcanestimatetheleveredbetaasfollows:bL =bu (1+((1-t)D/E))- bdebt (1-t)(D/E)Whilethelatterismorerealistic,estimatingbetasfordebtcanbedifficulttodo.
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Bottom-upBetas
Step 1: Find the business or businesses that your firm operates in.
Step 2: Find publicly traded firms in each of these businesses and obtain their regression betas. Compute the simple average across these regression betas to arrive at an average beta for these publicly traded firms. Unlever this average beta using the average debt to equity ratio across the publicly traded firms in the sample.Unlevered beta for business = Average beta across publicly traded firms/ (1 + (1- t) (Average D/E ratio across firms))
If you can, adjust this beta for differencesbetween your firm and the comparablefirms on operating leverage and product characteristics.
Step 3: Estimate how much value your firm derives from each of the different businesses it is in.
While revenues or operating income are often used as weights, it is better to try to estimate the value of each business.
Step 4: Compute a weighted average of the unlevered betas of the different businesses (from step 2) using the weights from step 3.Bottom-up Unlevered beta for your firm = Weighted average of the unlevered betas of the individual business
Step 5: Compute a levered beta (equity beta) for your firm, using the market debt to equity ratio for your firm. Levered bottom-up beta = Unlevered beta (1+ (1-t) (Debt/Equity))
If you expect the business mix of your firm to change over time, you can change the weights on a year-to-year basis.
If you expect your debt to equity ratio to change over time, the levered beta will change over time.
Possible Refinements
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Whybottom-upbetas?
¨ Thestandarderrorinabottom-upbetawillbesignificantlylowerthanthestandarderrorinasingleregressionbeta.Roughlyspeaking,thestandarderrorofabottom-upbetaestimatecanbewrittenasfollows:
Stderrorofbottom-upbeta=
¨ Thebottom-upbetacanbeadjustedtoreflectchangesinthefirm’sbusinessmixandfinancialleverage.Regressionbetasreflectthepast.
¨ Youcanestimatebottom-upbetasevenwhenyoudonothavehistoricalstockprices.Thisisthecasewithinitialpublicofferings,privatebusinessesordivisionsofcompanies.
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Average Std Error across BetasNumber of firms in sample
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EstimatingBottomUpBetas&CostsofEquity:Vale
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Business' Sample'Sample'size'
Unlevered'beta'of'business' Revenues'
Peer'Group'EV/Sales'
Value'of'Business'
Proportion'of'Vale'
Metals'&'Mining'
Global'firms'in'metals'&'mining,'Market'cap>$1'billion' 48' 0.86' $9,013' 1.97' $17,739' 16.65%'
Iron'Ore' Global'firms'in'iron'ore' 78' 0.83' $32,717' 2.48' $81,188' 76.20%'
Fertilizers'Global'specialty'chemical'firms' 693' 0.99' $3,777' 1.52' $5,741' 5.39%'
Logistics'Global'transportation'firms' 223' 0.75' $1,644' 1.14' $1,874' 1.76%'
Vale'Operations' '' '' 0.8440' $47,151' '' $106,543' 100.00%'
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Embraer’sBottom-upBeta
Business UnleveredBeta D/ERatio LeveredbetaAerospace 0.95 18.95% 1.07
¨ LeveredBeta=UnleveredBeta(1+(1- taxrate)(D/ERatio)=0.95(1+(1-.34)(.1895))=1.07
¨ CananunleveredbetaestimatedusingU.S.andEuropeanaerospacecompaniesbeusedtoestimatethebetaforaBrazilianaerospacecompany?
a. Yesb. No
Whatconcernswouldyouhaveinmakingthisassumption?
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GrossDebtversusNetDebtApproaches
¨ AnalystsinEuropeandLatinAmericaoftentakethedifferencebetweendebtandcash(netdebt)whencomputingdebtratiosandarriveatverydifferentvalues.
¨ ForEmbraer,usingthegrossdebtratio¤ GrossD/ERatioforEmbraer=1953/11,042=18.95%¤ LeveredBetausingGrossDebtratio=1.07
¨ Usingthenetdebtratio,weget¤ NetDebtRatioforEmbraer=(Debt- Cash)/MarketvalueofEquity
=(1953-2320)/11,042=-3.32%¤ LeveredBetausingNetDebtRatio=0.95(1+(1-.34)(-.0332))=0.93
¨ ThecostofEquityusingnetdebtleveredbetaforEmbraerwillbemuchlowerthanwiththegrossdebtapproach.ThecostofcapitalforEmbraerwillevenoutsincethedebtratiousedinthecostofcapitalequationwillnowbeanetdebtratioratherthanagrossdebtratio.
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TheCostofEquity:ARecap
Cost of Equity = Riskfree Rate + Beta * (Risk Premium)
Has to be in the samecurrency as cash flows, and defined in same terms(real or nominal) as thecash flows
Preferably, a bottom-up beta,based upon other firms in thebusiness, and firmʼs own financialleverage
Historical Premium1. Mature Equity Market Premium:Average premium earned bystocks over T.Bonds in U.S.2. Country risk premium =Country Default Spread* ( σEquity/σCountry bond)
Implied PremiumBased on how equitymarket is priced todayand a simple valuationmodel
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Moppingup
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EstimatingtheCostofDebt
¨ Thecostofdebtistherateatwhichyoucanborrowatcurrently,Itwillreflectnotonlyyourdefaultriskbutalsothelevelofinterestratesinthemarket.
¨ Thetwomostwidelyusedapproachestoestimatingcostofdebtare:¤ Lookinguptheyieldtomaturityonastraightbondoutstandingfrom
thefirm.Thelimitationofthisapproachisthatveryfewfirmshavelongtermstraightbondsthatareliquidandwidelytraded
¤ Lookinguptheratingforthefirmandestimatingadefaultspreadbasedupontherating.Whilethisapproachismorerobust,differentbondsfromthesamefirmcanhavedifferentratings.Youhavetouseamedianratingforthefirm
¨ Whenintrouble(eitherbecauseyouhavenoratingsormultipleratingsforafirm),estimateasyntheticratingforyourfirmandthecostofdebtbaseduponthatrating.
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