Category: Asset Pricing

When Growth Destroys Value: Capital Intensity, ROIC, and the Cost of Capital

Growth is not automatically value creating. This post explains how capital intensity and the ROIC minus WACC spread determine whether expansion creates value or destroys it, with links to economic profit and EVA references.

Capital Productivity and Value Creation Trends

Value creation in U.S. equity markets has shifted since 2008. This article analyzes capital productivity, cost of capital, and why firms with low value creation now outperform.

The Value-Creation Pricing Factor: Improving the Fama-French Five-Factor Model

Explore the Value-Creation Pricing Factor based on EVA (ROIC-WACC) and its ability to improve the Fama-French five-factor model. Evidence from a Master’s thesis on asset pricing and economic value creation.