Can you please answer these 20 Questions?
QUESTION 1
You have observed the following returns on ABC’s stocks over the last five years:
4.9%, 9.8%, -9%, 11.2%, -4.8%
What is the arithmetic average returns on the stock over this five-year period.
QUESTION 2
A portfolio is invested 43.8% in Stock A, 29.8% in Stock B, and the remainder in Stock C. The expected returns are 10.7%, 27.4%, and 18.5% respectively. What is the portfolio’s expected returns?
QUESTION 3
Suppose a stock had an initial price of $71.64 per share, paid a dividend of $9.7 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $92.05. If you own 122 shares, what are the dollar returns?
QUESTION 4
Suppose a stock had an initial price of $84.36 per share, paid a dividend of $5.1 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $107.65. What are the percentage returns?
QUESTION 5
Suppose the returns for Stock A for last six years was 4%, 7%, 8%, -2%, 9%, and 7%.
Compute the standard deviation of the returns.
QUESTION 6
Calculate the expected returns of your portfolio
Stock |
Invest |
Exp Ret |
A |
$429 |
3.7% |
B |
$812 |
15.8% |
C |
$218 |
29.4% |
QUESTION 7
You own a portfolio invested 10.01% in Stock A, 12.65% in Stock B, 13.78% in Stock C, and the remainder in Stock D. The beta of these four stocks are 1.14, 1.15, 0.99, and 0.73. What is the portfolio beta?
QUESTION 8
Suppose a stock had an initial price of $83.94 per share, paid a dividend of $5.2 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $98.63. What are the dollar returns?
QUESTION 9
Based on the following information, calculate the expected returns:
Prob |
Return |
|
Recession |
30% |
34.4% |
Boom |
70% |
10.4% |
QUESTION 10
Suppose a stock had an initial price of $70.16 per share, paid a dividend of $5.1 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $109.09. What are the percentage returns?
QUESTION 11
You own a portfolio invested 27.54% in Stock A, 13.01% in Stock B, 18.13% in Stock C, and the remainder in Stock D. The beta of these four stocks are 0.27, 0.89, 0.66, and 0.8. What is the portfolio beta?
QUESTION 12
Calculate the expected returns of your portfolio
Stock |
Invest |
Exp Ret |
A |
$251 |
7.4% |
B |
$955 |
19% |
C |
$1,265 |
25.4% |
QUESTION 13
Suppose a stock had an initial price of $96.37 per share, paid a dividend of $8.9 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $93.11. What are the percentage returns if you own 25 shares?
QUESTION 14
Suppose the real rate is 2.25% and the nominal rate is 11.16%. Solve for the inflation rate. Use the Fisher Effect equation.
QUESTION 15
The stock of Billingsley United has a beta of 0.92. The market risk premium is 8.4 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.2 percent. What is the expected return on this stock?
8.87 percent |
|
9.69 percent |
|
10.93 percent |
|
11.52 percent |
|
12.01 percent |
QUESTION 16
You own a portfolio of two stocks, A and B. Stock A is valued at $6,540 and has an expected return of 11.2 percent. Stock B has an expected return of 8.1 percent. What is the expected return on the portfolio if the portfolio value is $9,500?
9.58 percent |
|
9.62 percent |
|
9.74 percent |
|
9.97 percent |
|
10.23 percent |
QUESTION 17
You own a portfolio that has $1,900 invested in Stock A and $2,700 invested in Stock B. If the expected returns on these stocks are 9 percent and 15 percent, respectively, what is the expected return on the portfolio?
10.57 percent |
|
11.14 percent |
|
11.96 percent |
|
12.52 percent |
|
13.07 percent |
QUESTION 18
A $36,000 portfolio is invested in a risk-free security and two stocks. The beta of stock A is 1.29 while the beta of stock B is 0.90. One-half of the portfolio is invested in the risk-free security. How much is invested in stock A if the beta of the portfolio is 0.58?
$6,000 |
|
$9,000 |
|
$12,000 |
|
$15,000 |
|
$18,000 |
QUESTION 19
What is the beta of the following portfolio?
Stock Value Beta
J $21,600 1.48
K 13,000 1.13
l 46,000 .88
M 19,800 1.08
1.08 |
|
1.14 |
|
1.17 |
|
1.21 |
|
1.23 |
QUESTION 20
What is the beta of the following portfolio?
Stock Value Beta
S $32,800 .97
T 16,700 1.26
U 21,100 .79
V 4,600 1.48
0.98 |
|
1.02 |
|
1.11 |
|
1.14 |
|
1.20 |