Briefly describe how you can estimate a stock's required rate of return.
Required rate of return for an equity or stock can be calculated using the CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing formula) and is given by
Required rate of return = Risk free rate + Beta *(Market risk premium)
Where Risk free rate is generally the yield on risk free treasury securities
Beta is found by regressing the stock returns against the index return
Market risk premium is the excess of market return over the risk free rate.
Further, if a stock has just declared dividend(D0) and current market price of P0 with a growth in dividends of g, then
required rate of return = (D0/P0) + g
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