DCF & WACC
Why do you unlever and then relever beta when estimating cost of equity for a target?
Model answer
A company's observed (levered/equity) beta embeds the risk of its own capital structure; more leverage raises equity beta. To use comparable companies, you take each comp's levered beta, unlever it…
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