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In this article, we're going to talk about the incremental internal rate of return. so the reason we need an incremental in IRR is that let's say we had a situation where we had a cost of capital of 8%  and we have 2 different projects or 3 projects and we say oh look the return on "Project 1" is 21% the return on another is 28% and then the return on another is 30%.  We can't just say oh well let's just look and pick the highest IRR and say oh that's the project we want to do and the reason that we just can't look at one IRR and compare to another is that projects are going to differ based on the scale of the investment the timing of the cash flows in the riskiness of those cash flows. So when we're trying to compare projects based on IRR we can run into problems when we have differences that quote on these three levels. Incremental IRR is basically finding a way for us to compare two projects based using the IRR method. So let's walk

What is Internal Rate of Return? Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is a financial metric used to measure the profitability of an investment. It is the interest rate at which the net present value (NPV) of an investment's future cash flows is equal to zero. In other words, it is the rate at which an investment's benefits (cash inflows) are equal to its costs (cash outflows). IRR is a widely used metric in finance and is often used to compare the profitability of different investments. However, it is important to note that IRR is not always the best metric to use. For example, if an investment has uneven cash flows or if it is not an independent project, then IRR may not be an appropriate metric to use.  Incremental IRR is a variant of IRR that is used to evaluate the profitability of a specific project or investment compared to its next best alternative. It is calculated by taking the difference in the IRRs of two projects and comparing the results. This metric is especially us

In the world of finance, we are often quick to forget the tragedies of the past. Yet valuable lessons are to be had by exploring their causes and effects after all in the world of ever-changing rules products and services history is the one constant that can guide us through the ambiguity. It's the early 2000s and investors are looking for new safe sources of return, stocks and bonds are still pretty popular but the tech bubble at the turn of the century showed them that getting your money back from bankrupt firms can be a bit difficult. What about mortgages? That's right mortgages, are the loan you take out when you want to buy a home. After all, for mortgage lenders, these loans are a lot like bonds with bonuses. You receive regular interest payments and if the borrower defaults you get the position of their house. This is a handy fallback because with real estate prices on the rise, recovering your losses is no problem.  Investors don't want to buy the individual mortgag