Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) 2.0: Account of Business and Financial Risk

The famous Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), widely used in practice, takes into account only the business risk associated with investments in a specific company [not the entire market (or industry)]. In practice, most listing companies use debt financing and operate at a non-zero leverage level. This means that the financial risk associated with the use of debt financing, along with business risk, must be taken into account. The purpose of this paper is to simultaneously account for business and financial risk. We combined the CAPM theory and the Modigliani-Miller (MM) theory, which is the perpetual limit of the BFO (Brusov-Filatova-Orekhova) theory. The article shows that R. Hamada’s attempt to take into account both business and financial risks has proved unsustainable, and the formulas he obtained, widely used in practice, are incorrect. The paper outlines the correct formulae that made it possible to generalize CAPM for the first time, taking into account both business and financial risk. The application of the new CAPM 2.0 model to a number of companies is considered and the difference between the results obtained within the framework of CAPM 2.0 and CAPM is demonstrated. CAPM is one of the main models [along with APT (arbitrage pricing theory) and WACC] within the income approach to business valuation. This significantly increases the value of the developed CAPM 2.0 approach, which can significantly improve the accuracy of the assessment.

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