Session 10 (Undergraduate): Bottom Up Betas

In this session, we at how to estimate the beta for not only a company but its individual businesses by building up to a beta, rather than trusting a single regression. With Disney, we estimated a beta for each of the five businesses it was in, a collective beta for Disney’s operating businesses and a beta for Disney as a company (including its cash). We closed the session by extending the concept to private businesses Slides: ~adamodar/podcasts/cfUGspr16/ Post class te