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How I use Implied Cost of Capital (ICC) as a market valuation tool

What is Implied Cost of Capital? I love the intuition behind the model although I don't use it as proxy for expected returns. I use it as a relative value measure to identify analyst/institutional sentiment between different market sectors at a point in time. The actual calculation of the measure can be somewhat complex and involved. The below equation is the common form of the ICC model. As an active trader my primary concern is practical application and implementation so I simplified an

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