HW 9 Fundamentals Of Corporate Finance
HW 9 Fundamentals Of Corporate Finance
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Q.1
Initial Price 79
Dividend Paid 1.45
Ending Share Price 71
Calculate
Total Return
Dividend Yield
Capital Gains Yield
Q2.
Suppose a stock had an initial price of $72 per share, paid a dividend of $2.60 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $84.
Compute the percentage total return. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))
Total return %
Q3
Suppose a stock had an initial price of $52 per share, paid a dividend of $1.00 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $62.
What was the dividend yield and the capital gains yield? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))
Dividend yield %
Capital gains yield %
Q.6
Returns
Year X Y
1 12 % 23 %
2 15 27
3 – 12 – 13
4 11 11
5 10 17
Using the returns shown above, calculate the average returns, the variances, and the standard deviations for X and Y (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final percentage answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16) and variances to 5 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16161))
X Y
Average returns % %
Variances
Standard deviations % %
Q8
A stock has had returns of 17.22 percent, 12.30 percent, 6.21 percent, 27.46 percent, and −13.74 percent over the past five years, respectively.
What was the holding period return for the stock? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))
Holding-period return %
Q10
A stock has had returns of 16 percent, 23 percent, 15 percent, −11 percent, 30 percent, and −5 percent over the last six years.
What are the arithmetic and geometric returns for the stock? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answers to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))
Arithmetic return %
Geometric return %
Ques. 9
Q 9.
What are the portfolio weights for a portfolio that has 134 shares of Stock A that sell for $44 per share and 114 shares of Stock B that sell for $34 per share? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 4 decimal places. (e.g., 32.1616))
Portfolio weights
Stock A
Stock B
Q10.
You own a portfolio that is 30 percent invested in Stock X, 20 percent in Stock Y, and 50 percent in Stock Z. The expected returns on these three stocks are 9 percent, 15 percent, and 11 percent, respectively. What is the expected return on the portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))
Portfolio expected return %
Q11
Based on the following information:
Rate of Return If State Occurs
State of Probability of
Economy State of Economy Stock A Stock B
Recession 0.22 0.1 − 0.17
Normal 0.52 0.13 0.12
Boom 0.26 0.18 0.29
Calculate the expected return for the two stocks. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answers to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))
Expected return
Stock A %
Stock B %
Calculate the standard deviation for the two stocks. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))
Standard deviation
Stock A %
Stock B %
Q12.
A stock has a beta of 1.04, the expected return on the market is 10%, and the risk free rat is 3.5%.
What must the expected return on this stock be?
(Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Expected Return %
