You are bullish on IT stock. The current market price is OMR70 per share, and you have OMR8,000 of your own to invest. You borrow an additional OMR7,000 from your broker at an interest rate of 7% per year and invest OMR15,000 in the stock. What will be your rate of return if the price of Telecom stock goes up by 15% during the next year? The stock currently pays no dividends. How far does the price of Telecom stock have to fall for you to get a margin call if the maintenance margin is 30%? Assume the price fall happens immediately. Kim opens a brokerage account and purchases 500 shares of Batliboy at OMR50 per share. She borrows OMR5,000 from her broker to help pay for the purchase. The interest rate on the loan is 7% What is the margin in Kim's account when she first purchases the stock If the share price falls to OMR40 per share by the end of the year, what is the remaining margin in her account? If the maintenance margin requirement is 30%, will she receive a margin call? What is the rate of return on her investment? A closed-end fund starts the year with a net asset value of OMR10. By year end, NAV equals OMR10.10. At the beginning of the year, the fund was selling at a 3% premium to NAV. By the end of the year, the fund is selling at a 6% discount to NAV. The fund paid year end distributions of income and capital gains of OMR2.50. What is the rate of return to an investor in the fund during the year? Consider a mutual fund with OMR400 million in assets at the start of the year and with 20 million shares outstanding. The fund invests in a portfolio of stocks that provides dividend income at the end of the year of OMR4 million. The stocks included in the portfolio increases in price by 10%, but no securities are sold and there are no capital gain distributions. The fund charges fees of 3%, which are deducted from the portfolio assets at year end. What is the net asset value at the start and end of the year? What is the rate of return for an investor in the fund? You manage an equity fund with an expected risk premium of 8% and an expected standard deviation of 10%. The rate on Treasury bills is 5%. Your client chooses to invest OMR70,000 of her portfolio in your equity fund and OMR30,000 in a T-bill money market fund. What is the expected return and standard deviation of return on your client's portfolio? On the basis of the utility formula below, which investment would you select if you were risk averse with A = 4? Investment Expected return E(r) Standard deviation s 1 0.12 0.30 2 0.15 0.50 3 0.21 0.16 4 0.24 0.21 The following data are available to you as portfolio manager: Security Estimated return (%) Beta A 40 3.0 B 35 2.5 C 30 1.0 D 17.5 1.8 E 20.0 1.5 Market Index 25 2.0 Government Security 17 0 In terms of the security market line, which of the securities listed above are underpriced? Assuming that a portfolio is constructed using equal proportions of the five securities listed above, calculate the expected return and risk of such a portfolio.
Dividend Valuation
Dividend refers to a reward or cash that a company gives to its shareholders out of the profits. Dividends can be issued in various forms such as cash payment, stocks, or in any other form as per the company norms. It is usually a part of the profit that the company shares with its shareholders.
Dividend Discount Model
Dividend payments are generally paid to investors or shareholders of a company when the company earns profit for the year, thus representing growth. The dividend discount model is an important method used to forecast the price of a company’s stock. It is based on the computation methodology that the present value of all its future dividends is equivalent to the value of the company.
Capital Gains Yield
It may be referred to as the earnings generated on an investment over a particular period of time. It is generally expressed as a percentage and includes some dividends or interest earned by holding a particular security. Cases, where it is higher normally, indicate the higher income and lower risk. It is mostly computed on an annual basis and is different from the total return on investment. In case it becomes too high, indicates that either the stock prices are going down or the company is paying higher dividends.
Stock Valuation
In simple words, stock valuation is a tool to calculate the current price, or value, of a company. It is used to not only calculate the value of the company but help an investor decide if they want to buy, sell or hold a company's stocks.
- You are bullish on IT stock. The current market price is OMR70 per share, and you have OMR8,000 of your own to invest. You borrow an additional OMR7,000 from your broker at an interest rate of 7% per year and invest OMR15,000 in the stock.
- What will be your
rate of return if the price of Telecom stock goes up by 15% during the next year? The stock currently pays no dividends.
- How far does the price of Telecom stock have to fall for you to get a margin call if the maintenance margin is 30%? Assume the price fall happens immediately.
- Kim opens a brokerage account and purchases 500 shares of Batliboy at OMR50 per share. She borrows OMR5,000 from her broker to help pay for the purchase. The interest rate on the loan is 7%
- What is the margin in Kim's account when she first purchases the stock
- If the share price falls to OMR40 per share by the end of the year, what is the remaining margin in her account? If the maintenance margin requirement is 30%, will she receive a margin call?
- What is the rate of
return on her investment ?
- A closed-end fund starts the year with a net asset value of OMR10. By year end, NAV equals OMR10.10. At the beginning of the year, the fund was selling at a 3% premium to NAV. By the end of the year, the fund is selling at a 6% discount to NAV. The fund paid year end distributions of income and
capital gains of OMR2.50.
- What is the rate of return to an investor in the fund during the year?
- Consider a mutual fund with OMR400 million in assets at the start of the year and with 20 million shares outstanding. The fund invests in a portfolio of stocks that provides dividend income at the end of the year of OMR4 million. The stocks included in the portfolio increases in price by 10%, but no securities are sold and there are no capital gain distributions. The fund charges fees of 3%, which are deducted from the portfolio assets at year end. What is the net asset value at the start and end of the year? What is the rate of return for an investor in the fund?
- You manage an equity fund with an expected risk premium of 8% and an expected standard deviation of 10%. The rate on Treasury bills is 5%. Your client chooses to invest OMR70,000 of her portfolio in your equity fund and OMR30,000 in a T-bill
money market fund. What is the expected return and standard deviation of return on your client's portfolio?
- On the basis of the utility formula below, which investment would you select if you were risk averse with A = 4?
Investment |
Expected return E(r) |
Standard deviation s |
1 |
0.12 |
0.30 |
2 |
0.15 |
0.50 |
3 |
0.21 |
0.16 |
4 |
0.24 |
0.21 |
- The following data are available to you as
portfolio manager:
Security |
Estimated return (%) |
Beta |
A |
40 |
3.0 |
B |
35 |
2.5 |
C |
30 |
1.0 |
D |
17.5 |
1.8 |
E |
20.0 |
1.5 |
Market Index |
25 |
2.0 |
Government Security |
17 |
0 |
- In terms of the security market line, which of the securities listed above are underpriced?
- Assuming that a portfolio is constructed using equal proportions of the five securities listed above, calculate the expected return and risk of such a portfolio.
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