You recently purchased a stock that is expected to earn 16 percent in a booming economy, 12 percent in a normal economy, and lose 8 percent in a recessionary economy.. Stock A; Stock A h
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1. The return on a risky asset which is anticipated being earned in the future is called the _ return.
Trang 37. The _ tells us that the expected return on a risky asset depends only on that asset's nondiversifiable risk.
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II. must be equal to or greater than the expected return of the worst performing security in the portfolio
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b. can never be less than the standard deviation of the most risky security in the portfolio
c. must be equal to or greater than the lowest standard deviation of any single security held in the portfolio
d. is an arithmetic average of the standard deviations of the individual securities which comprise the portfolio
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b. The weights of the individual securities have no effect on the expected return of a portfolio when multiple states of the economy are involved
c. Changing the probabilities of occurrence for the various economic states will not affect the expected standard deviation of the portfolio
d. The standard deviation of the portfolio can be greater than the standard deviation of any single security in the portfolio given that the individual securities are well diversified
E. Given both the unequal weights of the securities and the unequal weights of the economic states, a portfolio can be created that has an expected standard deviation of zero
SECTION: 13.2
TOPIC: PORTFOLIO STANDARD DEVIATION
TYPE: CONCEPTS
Trang 1024. Which one of the following events would be included in the expected return on Delta stock?
a. The directors of Delta just fired the CEO because of remarks he made this morning to one
of the directors
b. A fire just destroyed Delta's main distribution warehouse which will directly impact the firm's sales for at least six months
E. Unexpected returns can be either positive or negative in the short term but tend to be zero over the longterm
Trang 17c. A portfolio beta cannot be computed from the betas of the individual securities comprising the portfolio because some risk is eliminated via diversification.
Trang 2050. If the market is efficient and securities are priced fairly then the _ will be constant forall securities.
Trang 2153. The excess return earned by an asset that has a beta of 1.0 over that earned by a riskfree asset is referred to as the:
Trang 2256. According to CAPM, the amount of reward an investor receives for bearing the risk of an individual security depends upon the:
Trang 2358. You want your portfolio beta to be 1.10. Currently, your portfolio consists of $3,000 invested in stock A with a beta of 1.65 and $2,000 in stock B with a beta of .72. You have another $5,000 to invest and want to divide it between an asset with a beta of 1.48 and a riskfree asset. How much should you invest in the riskfree asset?
Trang 2460. You recently purchased a stock that is expected to earn 16 percent in a booming economy,
12 percent in a normal economy, and lose 8 percent in a recessionary economy. There is a 20 percent probability of a boom, a 70 percent chance of a normal economy, and a 10 percent chance of a recession. What is your expected rate of return on this stock?
Trang 25a. Stock A; Stock A has a slightly lower expected return but appears to be significantly less risky than stock B
b. Stock A; Stock A has an expected return of 10.2 percent and appears to be less risky
C. Stock A; Stock A has a higher expected return and appears to be less risky than stock B
d. Stock B; Stock B has a higher expected return and appears to be just slightly more risky than stock A
Trang 2664. If the economy booms, Frank's Welding Supply stock is expected to return 19 percent. If the economy falls into a recession, the stock's return is projected at 5 percent. The probability
AACSB TOPIC: ANALYTIC
SECTION: 13.1
Trang 2766. The returns on the common stock of Cycles, Inc. are quite cyclical. In a boom economy, the stock is expected to return 27 percent in comparison to 13 percent in a normal economy and a negative 20 percent in a recessionary period. The probability of a recession is 30 percentwhile the probability of a boom is 5 percent. The remainder of the time the economy will be atnormal levels. What is the standard deviation of the returns on this stock?
Trang 3071. What is the expected return on a portfolio which is invested 30 percent in stock A, 40 percent in stock B, and 30 percent in stock C?
Trang 3273. What is the expected return on a portfolio comprised of $4,000 in stock K and $6,000 in stock L if the economy is normal?
Trang 3374. What is the expected return on a portfolio comprised of $7,500 in stock M and $2,500 in stock N if the economy enjoys a boom period?
Trang 3475. What is the portfolio variance if 55 percent is invested in stock S and 45 percent is invested in stock T?
Trang 3677. What is the standard deviation of a portfolio that is invested 68 percent in stock Q and 32 percent in stock R?
Trang 3778. What is the standard deviation of a portfolio which is comprised of $9,000 invested in stock S and $6,000 in stock T?
Trang 3879. What is the standard deviation of a portfolio which is invested 15 percent in stock A, 45 percent in stock B and 40 percent in stock C?
Trang 4082. Your portfolio has a beta of 1.24. The portfolio consists of 10 percent U.S. Treasury bills,
55 percent in stock A, and 35 percent in stock B. Stock A has a risklevel equivalent to that ofthe overall market. What is the beta of stock B?
Trang 4184. The market has an expected rate of return of 11.4 percent. The longterm government bond is expected to yield 5.4 percent and the U.S. Treasury bill is expected to yield 4.6 percent. The inflation rate is 3.9 percent. What is the market risk premium?
Trang 4286. The common stock of Abbott International has an expected return of 15.6 percent. The return on the market is 12.7 percent and the riskfree rate of return is 3.9 percent. What is the beta of this stock?
Trang 4388. The expected return on Joseph's Restaurant's stock is 14.25 percent while the expected return on the market is 12.38 percent. The stock's beta is 1.18. What is the riskfree rate of return?
Trang 4490. The common stock of PDS has a beta of .98 and an expected return of 12.34 percent. The riskfree rate of return is 4.1 percent and the market rate of return is 11.65 percent. Which one
of the following statements is true given this information?
a. The return on PDS stock will graph below the Security Market Line
B. PDS stock is underpriced
c. The expected return on PDS stock based on the Capital Asset Pricing Model is 15.52 percent
d. PDS stock has more systematic risk than the overall market
e. PDS stock is correctly priced
E(r) = .041 + [.98 (.1165 .041) = .11499 = 11.50 percent; PDS stock is underpriced as its actual expected return exceeds the expected return based on CAPM
Trang 4692. Which one of the following stocks is correctly priced if the riskfree rate of return is 3.5 percent and the market rate of return is 12.56 percent?
Trang 47CAPM suggests the expected return is a function of (1) the riskfree rate of return, which is the pure time value of money, (2) the market risk premium, which is the reward for bearing systematic risk, and (3) beta, which is the amount of systematic risk present in a particular asset. Better answers will point out that both the pure time value of money and the reward for bearing systematic risk are exogenously determined and can change on a daily basis, while theamount of systematic risk for a particular asset is determined by the firm's decisionmakers
AACSB TOPIC: REFLECTIVE THINKING
SECTION: 13.7
TOPIC: CAPM
Trang 4894. Explain how the slope of the security market line is determined and why every stock that
is correctly priced will lie on this line.
The market risk premium is the slope of the security market line. Slope is the rise over the run, which in this case is the difference between the market return and the riskfree rate divided by a beta of 1.0 minus a beta of zero. If a stock is correctly priced the rewardtorisk ratio will be constant and equal to the slope of the security market line. Thus, every stock that
An average risky security has a beta of 1.0, which is the market beta. Riskfree securities, i.e., U.S. Treasury bills, have a beta of zero. A portfolio that is invested 50 percent in a security that has a beta of 2.0 (twice the systematic risk as an average risky security) and 50 percent in riskfree securities (U.S. Treasury bills) will have a beta of 1.0 (which is the market beta)
Trang 49Standard deviation measures total risk. The unsystematic portion of the total risk can be eliminated by diversification. Therefore, the total risk of a portfolio is less than the total risk
of the component parts. Beta, on the other hand, measures systematic risk which cannot be eliminated by diversification. Thus, the systematic risk of a portfolio is the summation of the systematic risk of the component parts