Year-end 2022 data, including equity risk premia, CRSP decile size premia, and industry betas/IRPs, are now available in BVR’s Cost of Capital Professional platform. The platform is a simple, transparent, and cost-effective service for estimating the cost of capital and is designed to bring more professional judgment and common sense back into the process, which has become too much of a complex “black box” of applied mathematics. It supports the buildup method and CAPM calculations for any valuation date. It also gives you the flexibility to choose the start year for historical return data based on what segment of history you believe best offers a reasonable basis to make estimates of expected future returns. For a personalized demo of the platform, click here.
Extra: In a head-to-head test, all of the main cost of capital datasets, including Kroll’s Navigator, BVR’s Cost of Capital Professional, and Pepperdine, produced similar cost of equity estimates. See this article in the February 2023 issue of Business Valuation Update.