The Andersons own two shares of Magic Tricks Corporation’s common stock. The market value of the stock is $58. The Andersons also have $46 in cash. They have just received word of a rights offering. One new share of stock can be purchased at $46 for each two shares currently owned (based on two rights). What is the value of a right? What is the value of the Andersons’ portfolio before the rights offering? (Portfolio in this question represents stock plus cash.) If the Andersons participate in the rights offering, what will be the value of their portfolio, based on the diluted value (ex-rights) of the stock? If they sell their two rights but keep their stock at its diluted value and hold onto their cash, what will be the value of their portfolio?

Assume you purchased the right to sell 2,000 shares of Target stock in February 2022 at a strike price of $240 per share. Suppose Target stock sells for $212 per share immediately before your options’ expiration. What is the rate of return on your investment? What is your rate of return if the stock sells for $268 per share (think about it)? Assume your holding period for this investment is exactly three months.   Note: A negaive value should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your 3-month returns as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.

3. Kelly has one share of a stock. She has two days to sell her stock. At the opening of the stock market on each day, she decides whether to hold or sell the stock. If she decides to sell the stock, she sells it at the opening price. On each day, the stock price is expected to increase by $20 with probability 0.4 and decrease by $16 with probability 0.6 at the closing of the market. Assume that the opening price on the first day is $100. Kelly wants to maximize her wealth. a. Construct a decision tree for Kelly's stock selling problem. b.  Find an optimal decision strategy for Kelly using the expected value approach. What is the expected value of the optimal decision strategy? Show the backward pass procedure.

Stock options are one of the riskiest and potentially lucrative financial instruments available to investors. Stock options give the investor the right to buy or sell a particular stock for a stated price within a specified period of time. For example, on December 20th, an investor who believed that the stock of Apple Computer, Inc. was underpriced at $171.54, could buy an option to purchase 100 shares of Apple for $176.00 per share at any time until December 31st. The price of the option was $2.60 per share. Assume the investor purchased the option for $260.00 and Apple stock rose to $179.85 on Dec 23rd. Further, assume the investor exercised the option and bought the stock for $176.00 per share on Dec 23rd and immediately sold the stock for $179.85 per share. What rate of return did the investor make in 3 days from Dec 20th to the 23rd? (Round the final answer to two decimal places.) The rate of return is _________%.

Willis currently has $130,000 invested in a four-stock portfolio with a beta coefficient equal to 0.9. Willis plans to sell one of the stocks in his portfolio for $52,000, which will increase the portfolio's beta to 1.1. What is the beta coefficient of the stock Willis plans to sell? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

Suppose Sally Rubber Co. is going public and, based on the bookbuilding process, decides it will be issuing 300,000 shares of common stock to raise capital to fund the company's proposed expansion. Suppose a Dutch auction (an auction in which the auctioneer begins with a high asking price and lowers it until some bidder accepts the price) is used to allocate shares in the Sally Rubber Co. IPO. The following table shows the number of shares requested by potential bidders. Bids Bidder 1 Number of Shares Requested Price per Share 50,000 $65 Bidder 2 100,000 $55 Bidder 3 150,000 $54 Bidder 4 200,000 $48 Bidder 5 250,000 $41 Bidder 6 300,000 $39 To sell the 300,000 shares, Sally Rubber Co.'s IPO minimum offer price should be $ The total amount of funding raised will be $ Given the typical 7 percent transaction cost due to the issuing firm, the IPO would result in a transaction cost of $

Ted owns three stocks. The table below summarizes his holdings and the expected return for each stock in the portfolia: STOCK Holding Expected Return DIS 70,000 4% AMZN 72, 000 4% GM 73,000 8% What is the expected return of Ted's portfolio? (Enter your answer as a whole number plus two decimal places. 1. e. 2.25, not 0.0225)

1. Swenson Markets would like to sell an additional 1,000 shares of stock using a Dutch auction. The bids received are as follows: (Table below should be interpreted as follows: Bidder A is willing to pay $31 for each share, up to 100 shares while bidder B is willing to pay $29 for each share, up to 100 shares) (Hint: Remember that for Dutch auctions, sell shares first to bidder with willing to pay the highest price and then to bidder with second highest price and so on until all shares are sold. However, every bidder will pay the price of the last bidder to receive any shares. In other words, everyone will pay the lowest price of all successful bidders receiving shares regardless of their own price bids.) Bidder Price A B с 500 D 600 E 400 What is the total amount the issuer will receive from this auction? Ignore costs. Quantity 100 100 $31 $29 $28 $27 $26

NC Corp. holds three stocks in her portfolio: A, B, and C. The portfolio beta is 1.40. Stock A comprises 15 percent of the dollar value of her holdings and has a beta of 1.0. If NC Corp. sells all of her investment in A and invests the proceeds in the risk-free asset, her new portfolio beta will be:

Bill is looking to purchase one of two potential investments. He is considering a 12-year 10% coupon bond issued by YakBak that is currently selling for $975.61. His other option is to buy stock in Skippylnc. Skippy just issued a $1.50 dividend and expects to grow at 6.5%, Skippy's current stock price is $35.64. If both investments are fairly priced and Bill intends to hold the investment indefinitely, which offers a higher return? O The bond, 5.18% -4.48% O The bond, 10.00% > 4.48% O The stock, 10.71% 10.00% The stock, 10.98% 10.36%