The Cost of equity is the rate of return required by a company’s common shareholders. It is an integral part a firm’s Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC).
Some other related topics you might be interested to explore are Cost of Debt, Cost of Preferred Equity, and Weighted Average Cost of Capital.
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Cost of equity is among the topics included in the Corporate Finance module of the CFA Level 1 Curriculum.
