The major contribution of the current study is to extend this evidence by investigating the relationship between financial leverage and beta using a time-series approach. This has several advantages over the cross-sectional approach. Our results reveal that while the estimated unlevered beta produced ...
Building on theoretical asset pricing literature, we examine the roleof market risk and the size, book‐to‐market (BTM), and volatility anomaliesin the cross‐section of unlevered equity returns. Compared with levered (stock) returns, unlevered market beta plays a more important role in ...
(2019) show that unlevered betas provide a better explanation of cross-sectional unlevered returns, and they also find that unlevering the returns is robust against various portfolio sorts. Furthermore, Dam and Qiao (2020) find that firms’ financial leverage goes a long way in explaining the ...
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The seemingly perverse finding with respect to the leverage component of B/P survives under controls for size, estimated beta, return volatility, momentum, and default risk. The Book-to-Price Effect in Stock Returns: Accounting for Leverage Fama and French (1992) observe that book-to-price ...
The unlevered RP portfolio weights are rescaled to sum to 1 at each rebalancing. average market weight over this sample (1926– 2010) was 68 percent in stocks and 32 percent in Treasury bonds, but we note that this long sample does not include other types of bonds, such as corporate ...
These BAB portfolios earn large and statistically significant abnormal returns with Sharpe ratios in excess of 1 and large t-statistics. 5. In ETF fee-paying, the leveraged ETFs have fees ranging from 4 to 10 times the fees of the corresponding unlevered counterpart, which is already direct ...
We then construct monthly time-series of levered and unlevered total returns for each company in the sample; these returns are then used to create value-weighted levered and unlevered total return indices for each of the eight countries, and for our aggregate "All- Countries" sample. This ...
Step 2: Find the firm's unlevered beta using the Hamada equation: b = b U[1 + (1 - T)(D/E)] 1.286 = b U[1 + (0.6)(0.1765)] 1.286= 1.1059bU 1.1628= bU Solution - continued Step 3: Find the new levered beta given the new capital structure using the Hamada equation: ...
We can easily see that there is a mathematical difference betweenkVandkUso that the debt ratioDVdoes impactkV. Given a positive risk premiumkU−kD>0, the company cost of capitalkVmust be below the unlevered costkU. The numerical magnitude of this effect is, however, negligible. Even in an...