Equity Risk Premium (ERP)
Computes the equity risk premium: the extra return expected from investing in stocks rather than the risk-free rate. It's simply the expected market return minus the risk-free rate, and it serves as the central building block of the CAPM, multiplied by beta to estimate an asset's required return. The larger the premium, the more the market charges to take on equity risk. Enter the expected market return and the risk-free rate.
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Equity Risk Premium (ERP)
Computes the equity risk premium: the extra return expected from investing in stocks rather than the risk-free rate. It's simply the expected market return minus the risk-free rate, and it serves as the central building block of the CAPM, multiplied by beta to estimate an asset's required return. The larger the premium, the more the market charges to take on equity risk. Enter the expected market return and the risk-free rate.
The price of stomaching the market
Nobody trades the safety of a treasury bond for the roller coaster of the stock market for free. The equity risk premium is exactly that incentive: the extra return an investor expects to earn, on average, for putting money in stocks instead of the risk-free investment. It's the reward for enduring the volatility.
The calculation is no mystery: expected market return minus the risk-free rate. The number, though, is one of the most important pieces in finance. It's the heart of the CAPM, where it's multiplied by an asset's beta to estimate the return that asset should deliver. Change the risk premium and you change the valuation of practically everything.
Enter the expected market return and the risk-free rate, both as a percentage per year. The tool returns the premium in percentage points. Worth knowing: estimating the risk premium is a matter of eternal debate among academics and managers — using the historical average, the expectation implied in prices, or projections gives quite different numbers.
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