Archive for December, 2008

New Database: Morningstar Cost of Capital Resources Center

December 3, 2008

Industry Analysis module, originally published as Ibbotson’s Cost of Capital, reports by SIC code detailed statistics for sales and profitability, capitalization, beta, valuation multiples, financial ratios, equity returns, capital structure and more.
SBBI (Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation) Valuation essentials provides data from Ibbotson’s Valuation Yearbooks from 1999 to the present.
Company Betas module features the analysis found in Ibbotson’s Beta Book, current and historical data for 5,000 companies.
International Cost of Capital module includes the “International Cost of Capital Report” with estimates of the cost of equity for 170 countries from US and international investors; the “International Equity Risk Premia Report” provides historical equity risk premia in $USD and local currency for 16 countries dating back to 1970. Check out this database now.