Cost of Capital
Accurate risk assessment is vital in any financial analysis. BVR offers best-in-class tools for determining cost of capital and quantifying risk to enhance every aspect of your work – at the highest quality possible.
Guides & Books
2018 Valuation Handbook- International Industry Cost of Capital
August 2018
The 2018 International Valuation Handbook - Industry Cost of Capital offers the same type of rigorous industry-level analysis published in the U.S.-centric Valuation Handbook - Industry Cost of Capital. It provides industry-level cost of capital estimates (cost of equity, cost of debt, and weighted average cost of capital, or WACC), plus detailed industry-level statistics for sales, market capitalization, capital structure, various levered and unlevered beta estimates (e.g., ordinary-least squares (OLS) beta, sum beta, peer group beta, downside beta, etc.), valuation (trading) multiples, financial and profitability ratios, equity returns, aggregate forward-looking earnings-per-share (EPS) growth rates, and more.
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2018 Valuation Handbook: International Guide to Cost of Capital
June 2018
The 2018 Valuation Handbook - International Guide to Cost of Capital provides data and methodology guidance that will enable the reader to assess risk and develop cost of capital estimates on a global scale, coupled with data exhibits that provide country-level country risk premia (CRPs), Relative Volatility (RV) factors, and equity risk premia (ERPs).
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2018 Valuation Handbook - U.S. Industry Cost of Capital
May 2018
The 2018 Valuation Handbook – U.S. Industry Cost of Capital provides valuation professionals with the same type of rigorous industry-level analysis previously published in the green-cover Morningstar/Ibbotson Cost of Capital Yearbook (now discontinued). Using the most recent, up-to-date data is critical. This resource provides current data, updated annually (with data through March).
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2018 Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation (SBBI) Yearbook
March 2018
The 2018 Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation® (SBBI®) Yearbook includes returns, index values, and statistical analyses of U.S. large company stocks, small company stocks, long-term corporate bonds, long-term government bonds, intermediate-term government bonds, U.S. Treasury bills, and inflation from January 1926 to present (monthly).
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Business Valuation Update Yearbook, 2018 Edition
February 2018
BVR has you covered with the Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2018. This newest edition from the publishers of Business Valuation Update covers the year’s most groundbreaking and thought-provoking advancements in business valuation, and more. This critical desktop reference keeps you ahead of your peers with on-the-ground reporting from valuation experts, thought-leaders, and BVR’s editorial team.
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Understanding Business Valuation: A Practical Guide to Valuing Small- to Medium-Sized Businesses, 5th edition
October 2017
The new edition of Understanding Business Valuation simplifies a technical and complex area of practice with real-world experience and examples. Expert author Gary Trugman's informal, easy-to-read style, covers all the bases in the various valuation approaches, methods, and techniques.
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2017 Valuation Handbook: International Industry Cost of Capital
October 2017
The 2017 International Valuation Handbook - Industry Cost of Capital offers the same type of rigorous industry-level analysis published in the U.S.-centric Valuation Handbook - Industry Cost of Capital. It provides industry-level cost of capital estimates (cost of equity, cost of debt, and weighted average cost of capital, or WACC), plus detailed industry-level statistics for sales, market capitalization, capital structure, various levered and unlevered beta estimates (e.g., ordinary-least squares (OLS) beta, sum beta, peer group beta, downside beta, etc.), valuation (trading) multiples, financial and profitability ratios, equity returns, aggregate forward-looking earnings-per-share (EPS) growth rates, and more.
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Cost of Capital Reader, 2017-2018 edition
September 2017
Navigate the most recent discussions and advances in estimating cost of capital with BVR's new Cost of Capital Reader, 2017-2018 edition. This robust, searchable resource compiles a wealth of the most recent information from top publications such as the Business Valuation Update, Duff & Phelps Update, and more on important cost of capital topics.
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Business Valuation Update Yearbook, 2017 Edition
February 2017
BVR has you covered with the Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2017. This newest edition from the publishers of Business Valuation Update covers the year’s most groundbreaking and thought-provoking advancements in business valuation including IRC Sec. 2704, DLOM, cost of capital, and more. This critical desktop reference keeps you ahead of your peers with on-the-ground reporting from valuation experts, thought-leaders, and BVR’s editorial team.
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2016 International Valuation Handbook: Industry Cost of Capital
November 2016
The 2016 International Valuation Handbook - Industry Cost of Capital offers the same type of rigorous industry-level analysis published in the U.S.-centric Valuation Handbook - Industry Cost of Capital. It provides industry-level cost of capital estimates (cost of equity, cost of debt, and weighted average cost of capital, or WACC), plus detailed industry-level statistics for sales, market capitalization, capital structure, various levered and unlevered beta estimates (e.g., ordinary-least squares (OLS) beta, sum beta, peer group beta, downside beta, etc.), valuation (trading) multiples, financial and profitability ratios, equity returns, aggregate forward-looking earnings-per-share (EPS) growth rates, and more.
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2016 International Valuation Handbook: Guide to Cost of Capital
August 2016
The 2016 International Valuation Handbook - Guide to Cost of Capital provides data and methodology guidance that will enable the reader to assess risk and develop cost of capital estimates on a global scale, coupled with data exhibits that provide country-level country risk premia (CRPs), Relative Volatility (RV) factors, and equity risk premia (ERPs).
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2016 Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation (SBBI) Yearbook
August 2016
The 2016 Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation (SBBI) Yearbook is the industry standard performance data reference, with comprehensive records dating back to 1926. Covering common stocks, long-term government bonds, long-term corporate bonds, Treasury bills, and the Consumer Price Index, this book provides the essential information advisors, planners, and brokers need to analyze asset class performance.
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2016 Valuation Handbook - Industry Cost of Capital
June 2016
The 2016 Valuation Handbook – Industry Cost of Capital provides valuation professionals with the same type of rigorous industry-level analysis previously published in the green-cover Morningstar/Ibbotson Cost of Capital Yearbook (now discontinued). Using the most recent, up-to-date data is critical. This resource provides current data, updated annually (with data through March).
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2016 Valuation Handbook - Guide to Cost of Capital
March 2016
The 2016 Valuation Handbook - Guide to Cost of Capital includes both the ERP data available in the Duff & Phelps Risk Premium Report, and picks up where the previous SBBI Valuation Edition left off, with new features, tools, and analysis.
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A Consensus View: Q&A Guide to Financial Valuation 2016 edition
March 2016
In A Consensus View Q&A Guide to Business Valuation, Jim Hitchner, Shannon Pratt, and Jay Fishman answer over 150 of the most important business valuation questions they’ve been asked over the years. Each year, new chapters will be added and existing chapters will be updated.
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Business Valuation Yearbook 2016
February 2016
Keep up with business valuation’s most innovative approaches and techniques, new court decisions, and regulatory and professional standards updates. BVR has you covered with the Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2016. This newest edition from the publishers of Business Valuation Update covers the year’s most groundbreaking and thought-provoking advancements
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BVR Legal and Court Case Yearbook 2016
February 2016
The BVR Legal and Court Case Yearbook 2016 is essential for business appraisers and attorneys who want to stay ahead of their peers on the most important legal issues confronting business valuation. With in-depth analysis from BVR’s legal team, the lessons learned in this book help appraisers come to better and more defensible valuation conclusions.
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2015 Valuation Handbook - Industry Cost of Capital
July 2015
The 2015 Valuation Handbook- Industry Cost of Capital includes cost of capital estimates (equity capital, debt capital, and WACC) for over 200 U.S. industries, plus a host of detailed statistics that can be used for benchmarking purposes. It is an excellent way to support and augment the financial analyst's own custom analysis of the industry in which the subject business, business ownership interest, security, or intangible asset resides.
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2015 International Valuation Handbook - Guide to Cost of Capital
June 2015
The 2015 International Valuation Handbook-Guide to Cost of Capital is a must-have publication that includes data through December 2014 and March 2015 and builds on the same rigorous country-level cost of capital analysis previously published in the Morningstar/Ibbotson “international” reports.
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2015 International Valuation Handbook: Industry Cost of Capital
June 2015
The Duff & Phelps 2015 International Valuation Handbook—Industry Cost of Capital is the essential reference for valuation professionals, providing country-level cost of equity capital estimates for many regions. Updated annually by the valuation experts at Duff & Phelps, this authoritative guide allows quick access to the data and adjustable capital models required to accurately determine company risk.
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2015 Valuation Handbook - Guide to Cost of Capital
March 2015
The 2015 Valuation Handbook - Guide to Cost of Capital, authored by Duff & Phelps, replaces the discontinuedSBBI Valuation Edition and the Duff & Phelps Risk Premium Report. The Valuation Handbook includes both the ERP data available in the Duff & Phelps Risk Premium Report, and picks up where the previous SBBI Valuation Edition left off, with new features, tools, and analysis.
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Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2015
February 2015
BVR has you covered with the latest news in the business valuation profession! Get your Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2015 now to stay up to date with the most innovative approaches and techniques, leading conferences, new court decisions and changes in regulations and standards in the profession with on-the-ground reporting from valuation experts, thought-leaders and the BVR editorial team.
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BVR Legal and Court Case Yearbook 2015
February 2015
The BVR Legal and Court Case Yearbook 2015 is essential for business valuation professionals and attorneys to stay current on the most important legal issues confronting the profession. The Yearbook covers marital disputes, breach of contract actions, damages, dissenting shareholder disputes, estate and gift tax cases, federal taxation, intellectual property cases, bankruptcy litigation, and more.
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2014 Valuation Handbook - Industry Cost of Capital
October 2014
The 2014 Valuation Handbook - Industry Cost of Capital with data through March 2014, provides the same rigorous industry-level analysis previously published in the green-cover Morningstar/Ibbotson Cost of Capital Yearbook.
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Cost of Capital: Applications and Examples PLUS Website, Fifth Edition
April 2014
Completely revised for this highly anticipated fifth edition, Cost of Capital contains expanded materials on estimating the basic building blocks of the cost of equity capital, the risk-free rate, and equity risk premium. There is also discussion of the volatility created by the financial crisis in 2008...
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Cost of Capital in Litigation: Applications and Examples
September 2010
Cost of Capital in Litigation addresses cost of capital issues in litigation and discusses major decisions, highlighting how to avoid errors that have often been made by experts. The book helps the attorney and valuation expert understand the decisions within the context of the theory of cost of capital.
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Valuing a Business: The Analysis and Appraisal of Closely Held Companies, 5th Ed.
January 2008
Since the first edition was published in 1981, the profession of business appraisal has matured immensely. The IRS has come out with business valuation guidelines, and the AICPA has published their business valuation standards. While each organization’s standards or guidelines are slightly different from the others, there is unanimous agreement on the central concepts of business valuation.
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Training
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Excel for Valuation: Beginner to Advanced (eLearning course)
Whether you're new to the field or a veteran business valuation practitioner, there is no tool more critical than Excel. BVR's new eLearning course, "Excel for Valuation: Beginner to Advanced," will catapult your Excel knowledge and skills so you can work as efficiently as possible with spreadsheets, formulas and functions. You can customize the course to match your skill level; start with the very basics or jump right into more complex areas. The eLearning combination of video, notes, take-away templates, quizzes, and exercises ensure you will remain thoroughly engaged for the duration of the course.
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International Business Valuation Standards and Ethics (eLearning course)
Valuation is a global profession, and for many that means complying with the new 2017 International Valuation Standards and Code of Ethical Principles. This comprehensive eLearning course delivers what you need to know to demonstrate global valuation competency and understand the significant changes to the standards. See practical and relevant examples by working through an actual case study that follows all of the logical steps of a valuation engagement. Hold yourself to a higher global standard and be prepared to venture wherever your next valuation assignment takes you.
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Monte Carlo: Applications, Examples and Best Practices for Valuation (eLearning course)
As complexity and uncertainty continue to increase, business valuation experts must up their game to master the challenges that accompany today's engagements. Rise to – and soar beyond – the occasion using Monte Carlo simulations, an indispensable method for advanced valuation scenarios. This eLearning course, "Monte Carlo: Applications, Examples and Best Practices for Valuation" distills the best instruction and content on the topic.
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2018
Duff & Phelps Cost of Capital Navigator – Sneak Preview (Free Webinar)
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/ November
2017
The Essentials of CAPM Beta
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/ August
2016
Cost of Capital: An Anti-Cookbook Approach to Understanding
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/ October
2015
Working Capital and Value: Gone But Not Forgotten?
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/ September
2015
Forecasting Cost of Capital in Healthcare Valuations
Deal & Market Data
The risk-free rate is generally a rate available on instruments considered to have virtually no possibility of default, such as U.S. Treasury obligations. Using the latest data from the Federal Reserve Board, the BVR Risk-Free Rate Lookup provides nine risk-free rates commonly used to develop a discount rate.
Butler Pinkerton Calculator - Total Risk Allocator
The Butler Pinkerton Calculator (BPC) offers empirical data for total cost of equity (TCOE) and company-specific risk premiums (CSRP) – a first for the business valuation profession.
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The Duff & Phelps Cost of Capital Navigator
With the same critical data and information originally included in the Duff & Phelps Valuation Handbook – U.S. Guide to Cost of Capital, this robust tool provides frequent updates, comprehensive documentation, and online support in one breakthrough interface. Users can quickly and easily access the U.S. cost of capital data inputs (equity risk premia, size premia, industry risk premia, risk premia over the risk-free rate, risk-free rates) from two essential valuation data sets: The CRSP Deciles Size Study and The Risk Premium Report Study.
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Implied Private Company Pricing Line Tool (IPCPL)
A contentious subject in business valuation is the cost of capital estimation of a small privately held business by using data from publicly traded equity securities. Using the traditional approach, different appraisers analyzing the same firm using the same data sources can easily arrive at vastly different cost of capital estimates. The Implied Private Company Pricing Line (IPCPL) approach is designed to eliminate the inherent problems in comparing public and private data and to add another approach in estimating the cost of capital for a privately held business.
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News & Research
Business Valuation Update
The Business Valuation Update (BVU), a monthly newsletter with searchable online access, includes new thinking from leading professionals, detailed reports from valuation conferences, analysis of new business valuation approaches, thorough analysis of “landmark” legal cases in key business valuation issues, regulatory and standards updates, and much more.
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BVLaw
Attorneys and appraisers alike turn to the exclusive BVLaw collection of 3,900+ cases concerning business valuation issues including economic damages, lost profits, estate and gift tax, divorce, shareholder repression, partnership dissolution, securities litigation, and more.
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Blog Posts
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/ April
2018
Should appraisers be guessing on company-specific risk?
Of all the components that make up the cost of equity (COE), the company-specific risk premium (CSRP) often has the biggest impact on your discount rate. And, while appraisers rely on hard data for all of the other inputs in the COE, the CSRP is more or less a guess—which can send your business valuation off course. Check out BVR's infographic. Read more >>
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/ February
2018
SECBA gets sneak preview of the D&P Cost of Capital Navigator
The hardcover version of the Duff & Phelps Valuation Handbook – U.S. Guide to Cost of Capital will no longer be published—it is being replaced by the Duff & Phelps Cost of Capital Navigator, an interactive online application.
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/ May
2017
Private firms' cost of equity estimates may surprise you
Results of the “2017 Private Capital Markets Report" from Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business and Management. BVR is a research sponsor in Pepperdine’s efforts in developing a private cost of capital method as a legitimate alternative to looking to the public markets. Read more >>
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/ February
2017
Damodaran updates data-rich cost of capital spreadsheets
Professor Aswath Damodaran (New York University Stern School of Business) has released new data posts and data sets updated for 2017 related to valuation and the cost of capital, including historical stock returns, implied equity risk premiums, country risk premiums, and more. Read more >>
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/ July
2016
Brexit's impact on cost of capital
The Brexit vote reinforces the need for internal consistency between the elements of cost of capital and the current economic environment, according to leading global valuation experts and finance professors. Also, there may be a “new normal” in terms of interest rates, risk premiums, and growth. Read more >>