Question

Terlingua Energy Resources is a privately held, all equity firm. Managers at Terlingua need to estimate equity beta for their common stock. Here is data on four competitors. The four companies are publicly traded, all equity firms.

Company	Beta	Book value of equity ($ million)	Share price ($)	Shares outstanding (millions)
Hallibuddy Co.	1.15	500	17.44	40
Schlumbertime Ltd.	1.30	1,000	66.71	30
Felix Energy Inc.	1.50	750	62.5	25
Suferior Energy Co.	1.75	2,000	76.98	20

Estimate the Terlingua’s equity beta using the best procedure described in the lecture.

Do not round at intermediate steps in your calculation. Express your answer in decimal form. Round to two decimal places.

Answer 1

Company	Shares outstanding (millions)	Share price ($)	Total Market Value (millions)	Weight to total market value	Beta	Overall Beta
Hallibuddy Co.	40	17.44	697.60	0.12	1.15	0.14
Schlumbertime Ltd.	30	66.71	2,001.30	0.34	1.30	0.45
Felix Energy Inc.	25	62.50	1,562.50	0.27	1.50	0.40
Felix Energy Inc.	20	76.98	1,539.60	0.27	1.75	0.46
Total			5,801.00	1.00		1.46

Therefore, Terlingua’s equity beta = 1.46