a. Calculate the rate of return on a price-weighted index of the three stocks for the first period (t=0 to t= 1). (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Rate of return % b. What will be the divisor for the price-weighted index in year 2? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Divisor

You construct a price-weighted index of 49 stocks. At the beginning of the day, the index is 6,725.88. During the day, 48 stock prices remain the same, and 1 stock price increases $5.70. At the end of the day, your index value is 6,749.19. What is the divisor on your index? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 8 decimal places. what is the Divisor?

Ο A stock has a required return of 16%, the risk-free rate is 5.5%, and the market risk premium is 4%. a. What is the stock's beta? Round your answer to two decimal places. b. If the market risk premium increased to 7%, what would happen to the stock's required rate of return? Assume that the risk-free rate and the beta remain unchanged. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places. I. If the stock's beta is greater than 1.0, then the change in required rate of return will be greater than the change in the market risk premium. II. If the stock's beta is less than 1.0, then the change in required rate of return will be greater than the change in the market risk premium. III. If the stock's beta is greater than 1.0, then the change in required rate of return will be less than the change in the market risk premium. IV. If the stock's beta is equal to 1.0, then the change in required rate of return will be greater than the change in the market risk…

2. Required Rate of Return Suppose TRF = 4%, FM 9%, and FA = 8%. (a) Calculate Stock A's beta. Round your answer to one decimal place. - (b) If Stock A's beta were 1.3, then what would be A's new required rate of return? Round your answer to one decimal place. % 22222222 122122222322 2014 25226225 250-50 22 352525 2----- 2015

Suppose the average return on Asset A is 6.6 percent and the standard deviation is 8.6 percent and the average return and standard deviation on Asset B are 3.8 percent and 3.2 percent, respectively. Further assume that the returns are normally distributed. Use the NORMDIST function in Excel® to answer the following questions.    a. What is the probability that in any given year, the return on Asset A will be greater than 11 percent? Less than 0 percent? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. What is the probability that in any given year, the return on Asset B will be greater than 11 percent? Less than 0 percent? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) c-1. In a particular year, the return on Asset A was −4.25 percent. How likely is it that such a low return will recur at some point in the future? (Do…

Consider the three stocks in the following table. Pt represents price at time t, and Qt represents shares outstanding at time t. Stock C splits two-for-one in the last period. A B C Po 82 42 84 Rate of return 00 100 Divisor 200 200 P1 87 37 94 01 100 200 200 % P2 87 Required: a. Calculate the rate of return on a price-weighted index of the three stocks for the first period (t = 0 to t= 1). (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) 370 47 92 100 200 400 b. What will be the divisor for the price-weighted index in year 2? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) c. Calculate the rate of return of the price-weighted index for the second period (t=1 to t=2).

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Consider the three stocks in the following table. Pt represents price at time t, and Qt represents shares outstanding at time t. Stock C splits two-for-one in the last period. ABC Po 86 46 92 le 100 200 200 Rate of return P1 91 41 102 Q1 100 1.89 % 200 200 P2 91 41 51 Required: a. Calculate the rate of return on a price-weighted index of the three stocks for the first period (t = 0 to t = 1). (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) 22 100 200 400

Consider the following information: a. Calculate the expected return for Stocks A and B. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. Calculate the standard deviation for Stocks A and B. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

b. Consider the following information about three stocks: Probability of State of i. ii. iii. iv. State of Economy V. Boom Recession Economy 0.40 0.60 From the information given, you are required to answer the following questions. Compute the Standard Deviation for each stock. Compute the Coefficient Variation for each stock. Based on your computation in part (i) and (ii), which stock is riskier? Explain your answer. Rate of Return if State Occurs Stock Hang Stock Hang Jebat 7% 13% Tuah 28% (5%) Stock Hang Kasturi 15% 3% Assume that you have RM14,000 invested in Stock Hang Jebat whose beta is 1.5, RM19,000 invested in Stock Hang Kasturi whose beta is 2.5 and RM17,000 invested in Stock Hang Tuah whose beta is 1.6. Determine what is the beta of this portfolio. Based on your answer in part (iv), compute the required rate of return for this portfolio, given that the market rate of return is 13% and risk-free rate is 5%.