大家都在争论Market Return是不是应该用5年以上的期间. 我再细点说说, 你们听听是不是这样.
如果目的只是算出某个Stock Market的回报率, 你用3年, 5年, 10年的完全可以. 但是在CAPM的就用里上不行的. 为什么不行, 我们要想清在CAPM里, 我们用Rm来做什么?
在CAPM里, 一般Rm有两个用处, 1. 计算Beta. 2计算r (required rate of return) (使用RFR, Beta, Rm三个值).
从Beta来讲, 它反应的是这只股票的Market risk, (systematic risk), 而这个risk是一直在变化, 我们用了太久以前的数据是无法反应当前这个股票的特性的. 所以我们不能用太长时间的数据.
从r来说. 使用DDM, 我们求得r, 来计算当前股票价值. 所以, r,作为discount rate, 也叫股东要求回报率, 反应的是当前股东对当前市场和股票的要求回报率. 我们要计算当前股票的价值, 却使用10年前的市场要求回报率, 这能有正确结果吗?
我上学时, 专门就这个问题问过我的导师, 此人是金融和数学双料博士. 对不对, 大家就当个参考吧.
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Dear Jason, Yes, the return datas are unstable during the previous 5 years, this was largely due to the tech. shares crash followed by 911, then followed by wars. I would use 2-3 years data to compute the market returns and firm's returns. note that, if you do this, make sure the beta that you use also estimated over this period, overwise there will be inconsistency. George ----- Original Message ----- From: Boxin Dong <bdon2@student.monash.edu> Date: Saturday, May 14, 2005 8:31 pm Subject: about assignment > Dear George, > > This is Jason. > > We have some difficulties in calculating required return
> Here is our case. > > K = RFR + beta * (Rm-RFR) > > RFR: we use five years government bond > > Beta: we use business segment weighted service beta. (we can not > get correct historical beta. because market total return was too > volatile during past several years) > > When we calculate market return by using ASX200 adjusted index > from yahoo, (we do not know somewhere else SP ASX200 total return > index is available)we find the market return is not stable because > of the dramatic increase during past 3 years. e.g. Rm is about 16% > over past two years and Rm is about 11% over past 2.5 years. It > will cause big difference in required rate of return. > > So, in this case, which time period we should choose? How can we > deal with the Rm volatility? > > Thanks for your time > > Cheers > > Jason