Estimate the cost of capital for Eastman Chemical Company
Estimate the cost of capital for Eastman Chemical Company – Ticker: EMN Cost of Equity CAPM Model Use 3.35% as the risk-free rate Use 7% as the market risk premium Collect the past five year monthly prices for EMN and S&P 500 index Calculate monthly returns Use regression analysis to calculate Beta, and calculate the cost of equity Use Yahoo Finance Beta to calculate the cost of equity DCF Model i)Use Yahoo Finance to collect data ii) Calculate the cost of equity Compare the cost of equity using CAPM to the cost of equity using DCF. Do you observe any significant difference? What are the factors that may cause the differences?