Discover how the risk-adjusted discount rate reflects investment risk and return, helping you to evaluate the valuation of projects with potential risk.

A discount rate is a percentage rate that investors use to measure the value of future cash flows in today's dollars. A discount rate has a wide variety of applications in terms of analyzing ...

Understand the differences between the prime rate and discount rate, how each affects borrowing costs, consumer loans, and the role of the Federal Reserve.

Many businesses are resellers of manufactured goods. The business model involves marking up the price of the product beyond what it costs to acquire it from the manufacturer, to sell it at a profit.

The next step in my research on threats to retiree income involves earnings multiples and discount rates. The application space here is REITs, but the general points made apply much more broadly. It ...