Date updated: Created by: What is this data? Home Page: Data website: Companies in each industry: Variable definitions: 5-Jan-20 Aswath Damodaran, adamodar@stern.nyu.edu Beta, Unlevered beta and standard deviation http://www.damodaran.com US companies http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New Home Page/data.html http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pc/datasets/indname.xls http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New Home Page/datafile/variable.htm Do you want to use marginal or effective tax rates in unlevering betas? If marginal tax rate, enter the marginal tax rate to use Marginal 25.00% Standard Industry Name Number of Firms Beta D/E Effective Tax rate Unlevered Beta deviation of equity Computers/Peripherals 48 1.75 15.49% 6.21% 1.57 50.41% Household Products 127 1.03 17.17% 5.93% 0.91 50.91% Transportation (Railroads) 8 2.24 26.24% 12.24% 1.87 18.25%