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21. What is the purpose of the DuPont analysis in financial analysis?
A) To assess the company's liquidity position
B) To evaluate the effectiveness of a company's marketing strategies
C) To break down the return on equity (ROE) into its components
D) To calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
22. Which of the following is a key assumption of the Black-Scholes model for option pricing?
A) Constant interest rates
B) Perfectly efficient markets
C) Zero volatility
D) Discrete time intervals
23. What is the role of a financial derivative in risk management?
A) It eliminates all forms of financial risk
B) It allows companies to take on more risk
C) It helps companies hedge against specific types of risk
D) It is primarily used for speculative purposes
24. In the context of capital budgeting, what is the payback period of an investment?
A) The time it takes for an investment to generate positive cash flows
B) The time it takes for an investment to recoup its initial cost
C) The period during which a project is expected to be operational
D) The time it takes for an investment to reach its peak profitability
25. What is the primary objective of a stock buyback program?
A) To issue new shares to raise capital
B) To retire outstanding shares to increase ownership concentration
C) To increase the dividend payout ratio
D) To repurchase shares from the open market
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i. What are the assumptions underlying the CAPM? ii. What is meant by the market portfolio?iii. Sketch the capital market line and the efficient frontier when borrowing and lending rates are equal. Label the axes and important points of your sketch. iv. Do the same for the Security Market Line v. Would you expect firms with high operating leverage to have higher betas?Explain!
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What does the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) calculate?
a.
The expected rate of return on an individual stock with respect to the risk-free rate of return
b.
The expected rate of return of an individual stock based on its overall risk
c.
The expected rate of return of an individual stock with respect to its market risk only
d.
The expected rate of return of an individual stock reflecting its financial risk
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When estimating the cost of equity by use of the CAPM, three potential problems are (1) whether to use long-term or short-term rates for rRF, (2) whether or not the historical beta is the beta that investors use when evaluating the stock, and (3) how to measure the market risk premium, RPM. These problems leave us unsure of the true value of rs.
a. true
b. false
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Which statement is false regarding the Capital Asset Pricing Model?
A. The beta coefficient of a stock is constant.
B. The risk free rate is usually based on the treasury bill yield.
C. Market risk premium is the difference between market return and the risk free rate.
D. The cost of retained earnings is equal to the cost of new shares issued.
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i. What are the assumptions underlying the CAPM? ii. What is meant by the market portfolio?iii. Sketch the capital market line and the efficient frontier when borrowing and lending rates are equal. Label the axes and important points of your sketch. iv. Do the same for the Security Market Line v. Would you expect firms with high operating leverage to have higher betas?Explain!
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Which of the following is correct with regards to Theories of Term Structure?
When the shape of the yield curve depends on investors’ expectations about prospective prevailing interest rates, the Pure Exception Theory is being applied.
When the economic outlook is improving, the yield curve inverts as it reflects no changes in inflation premium.
The liquidity preference theory suggests that long-term rates are generally higher than short-term rates since investors perceive more liquidity in long-term investments.
Under the Market segmentation theory, there is an apparent relationship between the yield curve and the prevailing rate of returns in each market segment.
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Which of the below statements does the MM Proposition I predict?
A. In a perfect market, the value of a firm is independent of its capital structure
B.In a perfect market, the discount rate depends on the capital structure
C.In a perfect market, the value of a firm decreases in leverage
D.In a perfect market, the NPY of investments depends on the existing debt/equity mix
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Which of the following statements is true?
A.
Because of flotation costs, dollars raised by retaining earnings must work harder than dollars raised by selling new shares.
B.
All other things being equal, a call option price will increase, and a put option price will decrease if an exercise price increases.
C.
Security market line (SML) plots return against total risk which is measured by the standard deviation of returns.
D.
Because potential long-term returns, income from rent-payments, diversification, and inflation hedge, real-estate would be a good investment.
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Which of the following does NOT directly affect a company's cost of equity?
Select one:
a. Return on assets
b. Expected market return
c. Risk-free rate of return
d. The company's beta
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1. How can investors make decisions about financial instruments that involve future payoffs?
a) There is no uncertainty in market economies.
b) This can be done only when the future payoffs are certain.
c) Prices are determined by supply and demand which is always certain.
d) Investors can use probabilities and risk measurement procedures to account for all
possibilities.
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Which of the following is true of Behavioral Finance? Question 24 options: 1) It is a study of how
sociological and economic factors drive investor buy-and-sell decisions 2) It argues that investors
are always rational in their investment decision and that price anomalies are due to weak form
market efficiency 3) It argues that investors often make decisions based on emotions and biases 4) It
is a study of how market overreaction and underreaction are explained by the efficient market
hypothesis
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In a CAPM world, what do you need to know in order to estimate an asset's expected return?
Group of answer choices
The risk free rate, the market risk premium, and the asset's standard deviation
The risk free rate, the market risk premium, and the asset's beta
The corporate bond rate, the expected return on the S&P 500 and the asset's Beta
Market sentiment, historical stock returns and the risk free rate
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he concept of market efficiency underpins almost all financial theory and decision models. When financial markets are efficient, the price of a security—such as a share of a particular corporation’s common stock—should be (equal to or more than) the present value estimate of the firm’s expected cash flows discounted by its appropriate rate of return (also called the intrinsic value of the stock).
Almost all financial theory and decision models assume that the financial markets are efficient. The informational efficiency of financial markets determines the ability of investors to “beat” the market and earn excess (or abnormal) returns on their investments. If the markets are efficient, they will react rapidly as new relevant information becomes available. Financial theorists have identified three levels of informational efficiency that reflect what information is incorporated in stock prices.
Identify the form of capital market efficiency under the efficient market hypothesis…
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according to capm the expected return on equity includes a reward for:
a. market risk and specific risk
b. Specific risk only
c. Time value of money and market risk
d. Diversification and portfolio risk
e. Time value of money and specific risk
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Question 2: State whether the following statements are true or false.
Efficient Market Hypothesis means Securities are normally in equilibrium and are “fairly priced.
The market is IN equilibrium when the required rate of return larger than the dividend growth rate.
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A. If you have both the dividend growth and the security market line's costs of equity, you should use the higher of the two estimates when computing WACC.
B. The aftertax cost of debt increases when the market price of a bond increases.
C. A decrease in a firm's WACC will increase the attractiveness of the firm's investment options.
D. Beta is used to compute the return on equity and the standard deviation is used to compute the return on preferred.
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a.Distinguish between systematic and unsystematic risk and explain the significance of the distinction portfolio analysis
b. Describe the assumption in CAPM analysis that corporate debt as a zero beta value
c. Based on both the CAPM and Modigliani- Miller proposition (11), explain the support of relevant equations, how changes in the debt equity ratio can change a firm's equity beta
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Multiple Choice
A Current inflation
B A risk premium
C All available information
D The historical arithmetic rate of return
E The historical geometric rate of return
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