If a Firm Is Privately Owned, and Its Stock Is

question 22

True/False

If a firm is privately owned, and its stock is not traded in public markets, then we cannot measure its beta for use in the CAPM model, we cannot observe its stock price for use in the dividend growth model, and we don't know what the risk premium is for use in the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium method.All this makes it especially difficult to estimate the cost of equity for a private company.

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Definitions:

Average Variable Cost

The total variable costs (costs that change with production volume) divided by the quantity of output produced.

Diminishing Marginal Returns

A principle in economics where each additional unit of input results in a smaller increase in output than the previous unit, at a certain point.

Marginal Cost

The additional cost incurred in producing one more unit of a product, emphasizing the concept of optimizing production levels.

Average Total Cost

The total cost per unit of output, calculated by dividing the total cost of production by the total quantity produced.