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capital asset pricing model (CAPM)

A capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is an asset valuation model that describes the relationship between expected risk and expected return for marketable assets.

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The CAPM states that the intercept of a regression equation between an asset's returns and the returns of systematic factors equals 0 percent in an efficient market, but it does not necessarily assume a single source of systematic risk.