Cost of Equity

  

Is the risk worth the reward?

You might suspect that this is a common question in the arena of investing. The cost of equity figure for an organization will tell you just that. Every company that has investors has some sort of cost of equity figure. This figure represents what it costs the company to take on investors, or the return that investors must receive in order to continue taking on the risk associated with being a shareholder.

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