You have been assigned the task of estimating the expected returns for three different stocks: QRS, TUV, and WXY. Your preliminary analysis has established the historical risk premia associated with three risk factors that could potentially be included in your calculations: the excess return on a proxy for the market portfolio (MKT), and two variables capturing general macroeconomic exposures (MACRO1 and MACRO2). These values are: AMKT = 7.5 percent, AMACRO1 = -0.3 percent, and AMACRO2 = 0.6 percent. You have also estimated the following factor betas (loadings) for all three stocks with respect to each of these potential risk factors:   FACTOR LOADING Stock MKT MACRO1 MACRO2 QRS 1.24 -0.42 0.00 TUV 0.91 0.54 0.23 WXY 1.03 -0.09 0.00 a. Calculate expected returns for the three stocks using just the MKT risk factor. Assume a risk-free rate of 4.5 percent. b. Calculate the expected returns for the three stocks using all three risk factors and the same 4.5 percent risk-free rate.  c. Discuss the differences between the expected return estimates from the single-factor model and those from the multifactor model. Which estimates are most likely to be more useful in practice? d. What sort of exposure might MACRO2 represent? Given the estimated factor betas, is it really reasonable to consider it a common (systematic) risk factor?

Syntex, Inc. is considering an investment in one of two common stocks. Given the information that​ follows, which investment is​ better, based on the risk​ (as measured by the standard​ deviation) and​ return?   Common Stock A              Common Stock B              Probability Return Probability Return 0.35 13​% 0.25 −7​%   0.30 17​% 0.25 8​%   0.35 21​% 0.25 15​%       0.25 23​%   ​(Click on the icon    in order to copy its contents into a spreadsheet.​)       Question content area bottom Part 1 a.  Given the information in the​ table, the expected rate of return for stock A is enter your response here​%. ​(Round to two decimal​ places.)

Help me with part E please. Thank you so much a) Discuss the main assumptions of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).  (b) Write the equation of the Security Market Line (SML). Compute and draw theSML when the expected return of the NASDAQ index (market portfolio) is17% and the return to the risk-free asset is 7%. (c) Given the SML in (b), compute the beta and the expected return of the newshare Facebook assuming the volatility of the NASDAQ index (market portfolio) is 23.86% and its covariance with the share is 0.0655. (d) Facebook pays a dividend of 5 GBP and the growth of dividends is equal to 4%for the first two years and then rise to 6%. Assuming constant cost of capitalas computed in point (c), estimate the price of the Facebook share.  (e) Consider investing 20% of your wealth in the Facebook share with beta as in, What is the proportion you need to allocate to the Apple share with beta1.8 in order to replicate the market portfolio?

Consider the following table, which gives a security analyst's expected return on two stocks in two particular scenarios for the rate of return on the market: Market Return 6% 22 Aggressive Stock -3% 35 Defensive Stock 4% 12 Required: a. What are the betas of the two stocks? b. What is the expected rate of return on each stock if the two scenarios for the market return are equally likely? e. What hurdle rate should be used by the management of the aggressive firm for a project with the risk characteristics of the defensive firm's stock if market return is equally likely to be 6% or 22% ? Also, assume a T-Bill rate of 4%.

Asset A has a standard deviation of 0.17, and asset B has a standard deviation of 0.52. Assets A and B have a correlation coefficient of 0.44. What is the standard deviation of a portfolio consisting with a weight of 0.40 in asset A, a weight of 0.24 in asset B, and the remainder invested in a risk-free asset? Give your answer to four decimal places.

Consider the following table, which gives a security analyst's expected return on two stocks in two particular scenarios for the rate of return on the market: Market Return 6% 22 Aggressive Stock -3% 35 Defensive Stock 4% 12 Required: a. What are the betas of the two stocks? b. What is the expected rate of return on each stock if the two scenarios for the market return are equally likely? e. What hurdle rate should be used by the management of the aggressive firm for a project with the risk characteristics of the defensive firm's stock if market return is equally likely to be 6% or 22% ? Also, assume a T-Bill rate of 4%. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required A Required B Required E What are the betas of the two stocks? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places. Aggressive stock Defensive stock Beta

You are facing three stock investment alternatives, Stock A, Stock B and Stock C. Given the following information, please indicate which stock is (are) overvalued, which stock is (are) undervalued, and which stock is (are) correctly priced based on the required returns calculation using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM or Security Market Line=SML). The risk free rate is 3% and the risk premium for the market index return is 5%.  Please Show Work   Expected   Stocks Returns BETA A 14% 1.2 B 8% 0.67 C 20% 2.5

You are given the following information concerning three portfolios, the market portfolio, and the risk-free asset: Portfolio Y Z Market Risk-free Rp 16.00% бр 32.00% 15.00 27.00 7.30 17.00 11.30 5.80 22.00 0 Bp 1.90 1.25 0.75 1.00 0 Assume that the tracking error of Portfolio X is 13.40 percent. What is the information ratio for Portfolio X? Note: A negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 4 decimal places. Information ratio

Assume that using the Security Market Line (SML) the required rate of return (RA) on stock A is foundto be half of the required return (RB) on stock B. The risk-free rate (Rf) is one-fourth of the requiredreturn on A. Return on market portfolio is denoted by RM. Find the ratio of beta of A (A) to beta of B(B). d) Assume that the short-term risk-free rate is 3%, the market index S&P500 is expected to payreturns of 15% with the standard deviation equal to 20%. Asset A pays on average 5%, has standarddeviation equal to 20% and is NOT correlated with the S&P500. Asset B pays on average 8%, also hasstandard deviation equal to 20% and has correlation of 0.5 with the S&P500. Determine whetherasset A and B are overvalued or undervalued, and explain why. (Hint: Beta of asset i (??) =???????, where ??,?? are standard deviations of asset i and marketportfolio, ??? is the correlation between asset i and the market portfolio)Question 2. Foreign exchange marketsStatoil, the national…

Consider an environment of 40 individual risky securities and one risk free asset. One investoris selecting between the Markowitz mean-variance frontier framework and the index model inthe portfolio analysis. Answer the following questions:   (a) How many parameters are used as the input to construct the mean-variance frontier (b) How many inputs are used for the index model? calculate aswell