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Discuss how beta of a corporation is assessed by analysts. Discuss how leverage can influence beta of corporation to yield leveraged beta. Provide a fictitious example for clarity. Use Yahoo finance or any credible source to find rate of return of a security in the past 20 years, and use this data to estimate the beta of the corporation by the two different methods. How does your estimated value compares to the value provided by the source? Make sure to incorporate the effect of leverage if the corporation is leveraged. Provide your explanations and definitions in detail and be precise. Provide references for the content.