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:

Standard Deviation

Standard Deviation measures the amount of variation or dispersion from the average, indicating the risk associated with a variable.

Treasury Bills

Short-term government securities issued at a discount from the face value and maturing at par, typically within a year.

Beta

A measure of a stock's volatility in relation to the overall market, indicating the stock's risk compared to that of the average market risk.

Risk Level

The degree of uncertainty or potential financial loss inherent in an investment decision.