93 Calculating the Cost of Capital
Date
Alcoa
AA
American
International
AIG
American
Express
AXP
Boeing
BA
Citigroup
C
Caterpillar
CAT
DuPont
DD
Disney
DIS
General
Electric
GE
General
Motors
GM
Home Depot
HD
Honeywell
HON
4/2/2002 30.54 67.13 34.27 40.92 34.28 24.70 37.72 22.04 27.56 50.54 43.85 32.59
5/1/2002 31.54 65.04 35.52 39.27 34.33 23.64 39.29 21.79 27.20 49.33 39.42 35.00
6/3/2002 29.89 66.31 30.35 41.44 30.81 22.14 37.92 17.97 25.53 42.43 34.77 31.46
7/1/2002 24.53 62.12 29.53 38.23 26.66 20.38 35.80 16.86 28.30 36.95 29.24 28.89
8/1/2002 22.75 61.03 30.20 34.29 28.07 19.90 34.72 14.91 26.50 38.43 31.18 26.90
9/3/2002 17.50 53.20 26.11 31.57 25.41 16.97 31.07 14.40 21.82 31.24 24.75 19.45
10/1/2002 20.00 60.84 30.53 27.52 31.83 18.79 35.53 15.88 22.35 26.70 27.38 21.50
11/1/2002 23.32 63.37 32.68 31.67 33.49 22.96 38.75 18.85 24.00 32.35 25.03 23.55
12/2/2002 20.79 56.31 29.74 30.68 30.31 21.03 36.82 15.70 21.72 30.03 22.83 21.73
1/2/2003 18.04 52.68 29.89 29.38 29.75 20.39 32.89 16.85 20.64 29.60 19.86 22.13
2/3/2003 18.86 47.98 28.25 25.77 28.88 21.79 32.16 16.42 21.62 27.90 22.29 20.89
3/3/2003 17.82 48.18 27.96 23.43 29.84 22.81 34.08 16.39 22.92 27.78 23.21 19.50
4/1/2003 21.23 56.46 31.93 25.51 34.00 24.54 37.30 17.97 26.47 29.78 26.81 21.54
5/1/2003 22.79 56.39 35.14 28.85 35.71 24.33 37.25 18.92 25.80 29.60 30.96 24.10
2/1/2007 33.41 67.11 56.72 87.26 50.37 64.43 50.73 34.25 34.91 31.90 39.36 46.40
3/1/2007 33.90 67.22 56.25 88.91 51.34 67.03 49.43 34.43 35.36 30.64 36.74 46.06
4/2/2007 34.59 67.23 55.96 90.50 51.57 67.63 49.32 34.91 35.02 31.90 38.02 47.26
PRICE DATA FOR DOW-JONES INDUSTRIAL 30 COMPONENTS, APRIL 2002 - APRIL 2007
In the next spreadsheet, we compute, for each of the components of
the DJ30, the equations r
it
= a
it
+ b
it
r
SP,t
. We indicate the r-squared and
the t-statistics of the intercept a and the slope b for each equation:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
AB C DEFGHIJKLM
Alcoa
AA
American
International
AIG
American
Express
AXP
Boeing
BA
Citigroup
C
Caterpillar
CAT
DuPont
DD
Disney
DIS
General
Electric
GE
General
Motors
GM
Home
Depot
HD
Noneywell
HON
Alpha
-0.0074 -0.0058 0.0020 0.0097 0.0009 0.0100 -0.0007 0.0017 0.0003 -0.0140 -0.0098 -0.0018
Beta
1.9446 1.1873 1.2615 0.7304 1.2086 1.3915 1.0488 1.2131 0.7474 1.2860 1.5274 1.6276
R-squared
0.5646 0.3906 0.6987 0.1442 0.5050 0.4328 0.4114 0.3699 0.2533 0.1869 0.4791 0.6100
T-Alpha
-0.9545 -0.8548 0.5325 1.1917 0.1653 1.3765 -0.1147 0.2410 0.0583 -1.1417 -1.3563 -0.2964
T-Beta
8.6724 6.0965 11.5982 3.1260 7.6922 6.6532 6.3675 5.8350 4.4352 3.6511 7.3042 9.5241
Date
5/1/2002 3.22% -3.16% 3.58% -4.12% 0.15% -4.39% 4.08% -1.14% -1.31% -2.42% -10.65% 7.13%
6/3/2002 -5.37% 1.93% -15.73% 5.38% -10.82% -6.56% -3.55% -19.27% -6.34% -15.07% -12.55% -10.66%
7/1/2002 -19.76% -6.53% -2.74% -8.06% -14.47% -8.28% -5.75% -6.38% 10.30% -13.83% -17.32% -8.52%
RETURN DATA, ALPHA, BETA, R-SQUARED
For Dow-Jones 30 Industrials, April 2002 - April 2007
=tintercept(B16:B75,$AH$16:$AH$75)
=tslope(B16:B75,$AH$16:$AH$75)
=INTERCEPT(B16:B75,$AH$16:$AH$75)
=SLOPE(B16:B75,$AH$16:$AH$75)
=RSQ(B16:B75,$AH$16:$AH$75)
Here are the averages of the r-squared and the t-statistics when done
on an individual basis:
1
2
3
4
5
6
CBA
Average alpha -0.0005 <-- =AVERAGE('Page 87, bottom'!B7:AE7)
Average beta 1.1421 <-- =AVERAGE('Page 87, bottom'!B8:AE8)
Average r-squared 0.3508 <-- =AVERAGE('Page 87, bottom'!B9:AE9)
Average t-statistic, intercept 0.0052 <-- =AVERAGE('Page 87, bottom'!B10:AE10)
Average t-statistic, slope 5.7859 <-- =AVERAGE('Page 87, bottom'!B11:AE11)
REGRESSING THE DJ30 COMPONENTS ON THE S&P500
Averages