Marshall Hargrave is a stock analyst and writer with 10+ years of experience covering stocks and markets, as well as analyzing and valuing companies. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant ...

Cost of capital is a term that investors and companies use to express how much it costs a firm to obtain funding for projects. This rate is used as a benchmark to evaluate potential investment ...

Analysts use the return on invested capital (ROIC) metric to evaluate a company's capital allocation decisions. In particular, it's common to use ROIC in comparison with a company's weighted average ...

“Taking the Temperature of Health Care Valuations” (JofA, Oct.01, page 79) indicates the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) was used to derive the discount rate, which resulted in an “enterprise value ...