DCF & WACC
Why use comparable companies' betas to relever rather than just using the target's own historical beta?
Model answer
A single company's regression beta is noisy and unstable, and for a private company or a division there's no traded beta at all. Pulling betas from a set of pure-play comps, unlevering each to strip…
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