Economic growth in Latin America is often constrained not by lack of ideas, but by the high price of the capital required to ...

Beneath those obvious costs lies another that is far less visible and often ignored: the cost of capital. Few topics in ...

Learn what Composite Cost of Capital (WACC) is and how it's calculated. Discover its significance for companies and investors and see practical examples and applications.

OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Despite another year of elevated catastrophe losses, U.S. property/casualty (P/C) insurers generated high investment returns and were able to exceed their cost of ...

For 29 years, the Moskowitz Prize has recognized research results with a large potential impact on the global practice of responsible finance. The annual Moskowitz Prize, now in its 29th year, ...

The cost of capital is an aggregate measure and “not intended to measure the desirability of any individual capital investment project”; it “is one component used in evaluating the adequacy of a ...

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The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has determined that the cost of capital for the railroad industry was 9.87% for 2023. Calculated annually, the cost of capital is an aggregate measure and “not ...

BofA Securities analysts listed S&P 500 (SP500) stocks that have the highest spread between return on capital and the cost of it. Strategist Savita Subramanian wrote that the assumptions on the cost ...