Spanish Abstract: La rentabilidad media de los fondos de inversión en España en los últimos 15 años (1,98%) fue inferior a la inversión en bonos del estado a 15 años (4,4%) y a la inversión en el IBEX 35 (4%). Sólo 26 fondos de los 614 con 15 años tuvieron una rentabilidad superior a la...

The Total Return (TR), also called “return including dividends” and “Total Index Return” provides the theoretical return of a share, assuming that dividends are re-invested to purchase additional shares.The Total Return for All Shareholders (TRAS) is the return that all the shareholders...

We calculate the shareholder returns of the companies in the Euro Stoxx 50 in the period 2004 - April 2020. We analyze 62 companies: 47 that were in the Euro Stoxx 50 in April 2020 and had trading records since December 2004 and 15 companies that had been in the Euro Stoxx 50 in the period. In...

The all-shareholder return is the return that all the shareholders of a company had in a period. It is equal to the hypothetical return of a unique shareholder of the company. It is also the return of a shareholder that always had a constant proportion (ie. 0,2%) of the shares.The all-period...

The WACC is just the rate at which the Free Cash Flows must be discounted to obtain the same result as in the valuation using Equity Cash Flows discounted at the required return to equity (Ke).The WACC is neither a cost nor a required return: it is a weighted average of a cost and a required...

I review 150 textbooks on corporate finance and valuation published between 1979 and 2009 by authors such as Brealey, Myers, Copeland, Damodaran, Merton, Ross, Bruner, Bodie, Penman, Arzac… and find that their recommendations regarding the equity premium range from 3% to 10%, and that 51 books...

La rentabilidad media de los fondos de inversión en España en los últimos 10 años (2,7%) fue inferior a la inversión en bonos del estado a cualquier plazo y a la inversión en el IBEX 35. Sólo 37 fondos de los 1.161 con 10 años tuvieron una rentabilidad superior a la del IBEX 35, 178...

En el periodo diciembre 2002 - diciembre 2012, la rentabilidad del IBEX 35 fue 113% (media anual 7,86%) y la de los bonos del Estado a 10 años 52% (media anual 4,3%). Entre los 573 fondos de pensiones con 10 años de historia, sólo 2 fondos superaron la rentabilidad del IBEX 35, y sólo 32...

Only 25 companies out of 136 had negative return in January-September 2009 (133 in 2008). The 136 companies created value in January-September 2009 (64 billion euros), but destroyed value in 2008 (420 billion euros) and in 2007 (17 billion euros). The average return of the 136 companies was 24%...