A project under consideration has an internal rate of return of 17% and a beta of 0.5. The risk-free rate is 9% and the expected rate of return on the market portfolio is 17%.  A. What is the required rate of return on the project? B. Should the project be accepted?  C. What is the required rate of return on the project if the beta is 1.50? D. If projects beta is 1.50, should the project be accepted?

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Consider an economy with three states which occur with probability (0.2, 0.2, 0.6). Suppose a firm has a project which generates the state dependent cash flows (100, 240, 220) at t=1. The investment costs are 170 at t=0. The firm has 170 at t=0. The market portfolio generates the payoff (200, 230, 260) and has an expected return of 10%. The risk free rate is 2%. Suppose the CAPM holds.    (a) What is the beta of this project?    (b) What is the net present value of the project? Explain whether the firm should conduct the project.

A firm must decide between investing in two alternative risky projects, each requiring the same initial investment. Project A has an equal probability of four possible payoffs: $80m, $100m, $120m or $140m. Project B has a 50:50 chance of a payoff of $90m or $126m. Assuming that the firm’s managers are risk averse, which project would they prefer, and why?

A project's internal rate of return (IRR) is the discount rate YTM on a bond. The equation for calculating the IRR is: timing Project A Project B 0 1 2 CFt is the expected cash flow in Period t and cash outflows are treated as negative cash flows. There must be a change in cash flow signs to calculate the IRR. The IRR equation is simply the NPV equation solved for the particular discount rate that causes NPV to equal zero 320 255 The IRR calculation assumes that cash flows are reinvested at the IRR If the IRR is greater ✔than the project's risk-adjusted cost of capital, then the project should be accepted; however, if the IRR is less than the project's risk-adjusted cost of capital, then the project should be rejected ✓✓✓. Because of the IRR reinvestment rate assumption, when mutually exclusive projects are evaluated the IRR approach can lead to conflicting results from the NPV method. Two basic conditions can lead to conflicts between NPV and IRR: ✔ differences (earlier cash flows in…

The risk-free rate of a capital-budgeting project a company wants to undergo is 5% and the expected market rate of return is 10%. The company has a beta of 0.3 and the project being evaluated has risk equal to the average project that the company has accepted in the past. Using the IRR method, determine an appropriate hurdle rate according to CAPM.

Suppose your firm is considering investing in a project with the cash flows shown below, that the required rate of return on projects of this risk class is 11 percent, and that the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistic for the project are 2 and 3 years, respectively.   Time  0 1 2 3 4 5 6   Cash Flow -1,040 140 460 660 660 260 660 Use the NPV decision rule to evaluate this project; should it be accepted or rejected?

Pronto Email service has a beta of 0.95 and a cost of equity of 11.9 percent. The risk-free rate of return is 2.8 percent. The firm is currently considering a project that has a beta of 1.03 and a project life of 6 years. What discount rate should be assigned to this project?  a. 13.33% b. 13.84% c. 12.67% d. 13.62%

A project has a beta of 0.91, the risk-free rate is 3.5%, and the market risk premium is 8.0%. The project's expected rate of return is %.

A project under consideration has an internal rate of return of 18% and a beta of 0.5. The risk-free rate is 6%, and the expected rate of return on the market portfolio is 18%. a. What is the required rate of return on the project? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a whole percent.) b. Should the project be accepted? c. What is the required rate of return on the project if its beta is 1.50? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a whole percent.) d. If project's beta is 1.50, should the project be accepted?