Dividends Finance Risk-free Rate 
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 19, 2022
In a post at the start of 2021 , I argued that while stocks entered the year at elevated levels, especially on historic metrics (such as PE ratios), they were priced to deliver reasonable returns, relative to very low risk free rates (with the treasury bond rate at 0.93% at the start of 2021).
Andrew Stolz
AUGUST 4, 2020
Dividends . Risk-free rate: The risk-free rate is the government bonds yield; therefore, it is strongly influenced by the inflation rate. Additional factors that influence the risk-free rate are macroeconomic factors, monetary policies, external and structural factors.
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Andrew Stolz
AUGUST 5, 2020
Risk-free rate . The systematic risk of the security (Beta). Dividend per share . The growth rate of dividends . There are two ways you can calculate the cost of equity, which are the CAPM and the Dividend capitalization model. Dividend capitalization model: Cost of equity = (DPS/CMV) + GRD.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 5, 2024
I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year. Beta & Risk 1. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Tax rates 4.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 21, 2023
The first is the dividends you receive, while you hold stocks, a cash flow stream that provides a measure of stability to investors who seek it. As with the yield to maturity for a bond, I solve for the discount rate (IRR) that makes the present value of cashflows on the index equal to the level of the index. Stocks: The What Next?
Musings on Markets
AUGUST 5, 2023
In short, the expected return on a risky investment can be constructed as the sum of the returns you can expect on a guaranteed investment, i.e., a riskfree rate, and a risk premium, which will scale up as risk increases. The risk premium that you demand has different names in different markets.
Brian DeChesare
AUGUST 31, 2022
The risk-free rate is higher – because investors benefit from “delaying” their eventual purchase of the underlying shares when they earn higher interest elsewhere. The risk-free rate and time to maturity also affect the Liability component (and other factors, such as the company’s credit quality, play a role).
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