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What are free cash flows? What are the three determinants of free cash flows?
Define the Standard deviation, s variance ,s2; coefficient of variation.
Security A has an expected return of 7 percent, a standard deviation of returns of 35 percent, a correlation coefficient with the market of 0.3.
Can you think of any asset that would be completely riskless? Could someone develop such an asset? Explain.
If investors' aversion to risk increased, would the risk premium on a high-beta stock increase more or less than that on a low-beta stock? Explain.
What is the expected return for the overall stock market? What is the required rate of return on a stock that has a beta of 1.2?
Now assume rRF remains at 9 percent but rM, increases to 16 percent or falls to 13 percent.
Calculate the standard deviation of returns for each stock and for the portfolio.
What is the required rate of return for a portfolio consisting of 80 percent of Stock X and 20 percent of Stock Y?
You have a $2 million portfolio consisting of a $100,000 investment in each of 20 different stocks
By how much does the required return on the riskier stock exceed the required return on the less risky stock?
Define the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Capital Market Line.
Security A has an expected rate of return of 6 percent, a standard deviation of returns of 30 percent, a correlation coefficient with the market of 0.25.
Define the development bond, municipal bond insurance, junk bond, investment-grade bond.
The values of outstanding bonds change whenever the going rate of interest changes.
Does the length of time to maturity affect the extent to which a given change in interest rates will affect the bond's price.
The corporation makes annual payments to the trustee, who invests the proceeds in securities and uses the accumulated .
Interest is paid annually, the bonds have a $1,000 par value, and the coupon interest rate is 8 percent.
Thatcher Corporation's bonds will mature in 10 years. The bonds have a face value of $1,000 and an 8 percent coupon rate, paid semiannually.
Why does the longer-term bond fluctuate more when interest rates change than does the shorter-term bond ?
Would you pay $829 for one of these bonds if you thought that the appropriate rate of interest was 12 percent-that is, if rd 12%?
Compute the realized rate of return for investors who purchased the bonds when they were issued and who surrender them today in exchange for the call price.
A 10-year, 12 percent semiannual coupon bond with a par value of $1,000 may be called in 4 years at a call price of $1,060.
You just purchased a bond that matures in 5 years. The bond has a face value of $1,000 and has an 8 percent annual coupon.
A bond that matures in 7 years sells for $1,020. The bond has a face value of $1,000 and a yield to maturity of 10.5883 percent.