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A company's Beta is a measure of its systematic risk. If you are performing a DCF for a private company, what is the first step in determining its Beta?
- Use the historical return of the S&P 500
- Find the levered betas of comparable public companies
- Divide the company's debt by its equity
- Multiply the market risk premium by the risk-free rate
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