She has $71,000 invested in stock A with a beta of 1.30 and another $56,000 invested in stock B with a beta of .60. If these are the only two investments in her portfolio, what is her portfolio’s beta?

You own a portfolio that is 21 percent invested in Stock X, 36 percent in Stock Y, and 43 percent in Stock Z. The expected returns on these three stocks are 9 percent, 12 percent, and 14 percent, respectively. What is the expected return on the portfolio?

Suppose you hold a diversified portfolio consisting of a $7,500 investment in each of 20 different common stocks. The portfolio beta is equal to 1.12. Now, suppose you have decide to sell one of the stocks in your portfolio with a beta equal to 1.0 for 7,500 and to use these proceeds to buy another stocks for your portfolio. Assume the new stocks beta to 1.75. Calculate your portfolios new beta.

Sally has investments with the following characteristics in her portfolio: Investment in Beta Amount invested Stock Q 1.5 $80,000 Stock R 2.0 $50,000 Stock S 0.85 $70,000   Given the risk free rate of 2% and the market return of 7%, what is the expected rate of return of Sally’s investment portfolio?

You own $14,755 of Olympic Steel stock that has a beta of 3.14. You also own $19,295 of Rent-a-Center (beta = 1.61) and $22,700 of Lincoln Educational (beta = 0.62). What is the beta of your portfolio? Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places. Portfolio beta

Your portfolio is comprised of 30 percent of Stock X, 20 percent of Stock Y, and 50 percent of Stock Z. Stock X has a beta of 1.02, Stock Y has a beta of 0.96, and Stock Z has a beta of 1.27. What is the beta of your portfolio?

Anna holds a portfolio comprising the following 3 stocks: X, Y and Z. Investment  Amount  Beta. Expected return Security X   $2000.  1.3.      Security Y    $1000.   1.       10% Security Z.    $500.     0.       2% a. Determine the expected return of security X. b. Calculate the return of Anna’s portfolio. c. Calculate the beta of Anna’s portfolio. d. To reduce the systematic risk of the portfolio, Anna is considering 3 securities to add to the portfolio. Security A has a beta of 0, security B has a beta of 0.5 and Security C has a beta of -0.3. Discuss which security will be most effective in reducing the portfolio’s systematic risk? How would portfolio expected return change (higher or lower) if you add this security?

Ebenezer Scrooge has invested 65% of his money in share A and the remainder in share B. He assesses their prospects as follows:   A   B Expected return (%) 16   21 Standard deviation (%) 23   27 Correlation between returns   0.5   What are the expected return and standard deviation of returns on his portfolio? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places. How would your answer change if the correlation coefficient were 0 or −0.50? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places. Is Mr. Scrooge’s portfolio better or worse than one invested entirely in share A, or is it not possible to say?

Consider a portfolio with stocks A, B, and C. The total value of the portfolio is $245,000 and it is fully invested in these 3 stocks. $85,653 is invested in A and $69,552 is invested in B. The Betas of stocks A, B, and C are 1.2, .8, and 1.62, respectively. What is the Beta of the portfolio overall?

I made a portfolio on stock track and my sharoe ratio is 3.29, alpha is -2.74, and my beta is 0.86.  What do those numbers tell me about my resume?