Below you will find the closing stock prices for eBay over a three-week period. Calculate the simple three-day and five-day moving averages for the stock. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)   Week Day Close 1 Monday   $38.61     Tuesday   38.43     Wednesday   38.03     Thursday   38.29     Friday   37.55   2 Monday   37.72     Tuesday   37.79     Wednesday   37.83     Thursday   38.52     Friday   38.62   3 Monday   38.55     Tuesday   38.71     Wednesday   39.04     Thursday   39.19     Friday   39.02

Given the information in the table, if  the stock has a required return of 12.6%, what is the value of the stock?

(Related to Checkpoint 7.2) (Calculating the geometric and arithmetic average rate of return) Marsh Inc. had the following end-of-year stock prices over the last five years and paid no cash dividends Time 2 Marsh $10 10 20 4 5 10 (Click on the icon in order to copy its contents into a spreadsheet) 7 a Calculate the annual rate of return for each year from the above information. b. What is the arithmetic average rate of retum earned by investing in Marsh's stock over this period? C. What is the geometric average rate of return earned by investing in Marsh's stock over this period? d. Considering the beginning and ending stock prices for the five-year period are the same, which type of average rate of return (the arithmetic or geometric) better describes the average annual rate of return earned over the period? a. The annual rate of return at the end of year 2 is%. (Round to two decimal places.) GILE

(Computing rates of return) From the following price data, compute the annual rates of return for Asman and Salinas. Time 1 2 3 12 4 14 (Click on the icon in order to copy its contents into a spreadsheet.) How would you interpret the meaning of the annual rates of return? Asman $9 11 Salinas $30 27 32 36 The rate of return you would have earned on Asman stock from time 1 to time 2 is %. (Round to two decimal places.)

Use the portion of the stock table shown below to answer the questions that follow. Round dollar amounts to the nearest cent, if necessary. YTD %CHG 52- HI Week LO STOCK DIV YLD % VOL 100s CLOSE NET CHG 2.8 37.43 21.10 A1 0.99 3.7 789 27.02 –0.1 2.4 48.30 30.78 B1 ... 1303 41.68 0.4 If you purchased 400 shares of B1 stock at $45.03, what would the loss be if the shares were sold at the closing price indicated in the table.

Use the data below to construct the advance/decline line for the stock market. Volume figures are in thousands of shares. (Input all amounts as positive values. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest whole number.)     StocksAdvancing AdvancingVolume StocksDeclining DecliningVolume Monday 1,809 703,133 1,335 551,144 Tuesday 1,941 603,360 1,311 452,797 Wednesday 1,815 624,994 1,343 720,931 Thursday 2,480 1,114,410 550 174,342 Friday 1,688 511,962 1,472 496,960

Let's say it's February 2 and you think Amazon's earnings will beat Wall Street's estimates on February 3. Which general strategy will offer you the highest returns per dollar? Multiple Choice O O O Short Amazon stock Buy Amazon calls Sell Amazon calls Buy Amazon puts O Buy Amazon stock

Go to Yahoo! Finance and download the monthly stock prices for Apple (AAPL) from 1/1/2016 to 12/31/2021. (1) Sort the data in increasing order by date. (2) Calculate monthly returns using Adj. Close prices. Align the returns well with the dates. (3) Calculate the average monthly return and standard deviation of the monthly returns. (Hint: use either STDEV.S or STDEV to calculate the standard deviation.) On Excel Formulas included

You've collected the following information from your favorite financial website. 52-Week Price Div Yld PE Close Net Ratio Price Chg Hi Lo Stock (Div) % 77.40 10.43 Palm Coal .36 2.6 6 13.90 .24 55.81 33.42 Lake Lead Grp 1.54 3.8 10 40.43 -.01 130.93 69.50 SIR 2.00 2.2 10 88.97 3.07 50.24 13.95 DR Dime .80 5.2 6 15.43 -.26 .18 35.30 20.77 Candy Galore 0.35 1.5 28 ?? a. Using the dividend yield, calculate the closing price for Candy Galore on this day. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. Assume the actual closing price for Candy Galore was $23.02. Your research projects a 4.75 percent dividend growth rate for Candy Galore. What is the required return for the stock using the dividend discount model and the actual stock price? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) a. Stock price b. Required return %

Use the times and corresponding closing prices of the stock to create coordinate pairs. Let x represent the number of weeks since the first data point, and let y represent the closing price at each time. So, x=0 represents the data point from 5 years ago. There are 52 weeks in a year, and you can write the time for each closing price recorded in terms of weeks that have passed since 5 years ago, when x=0.  Fill in the table to represent your data as coordinate pairs. x (weeks since 5 yrs ago)     most recent 260 7days ago 259 1 month ago 256 6 months ago 234 1 year ago 208 3 years ago 104 5 years ago 0 y (closing price, in $) most recent 7 days ago 1 month ago 6 months ago 1 year ago 3 years ago 5 years ago