es A manager believes his firm will earn a return of 23.80 percent next year. His firm has a beta of 1.69, the expected return on the market is 16.30 percent, and the risk-free rate is 6.30 percent. Compute the return the firm should earn given its level of risk. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Required return Determine whether the manager is saying the firm is undervalued or overvalued. Oundervalued % overvalued

es A manager believes his firm will earn a return of 23.80 percent next year. His firm has a beta of 1.69, the expected return on the market is 16.30 percent, and the risk-free rate is 6.30 percent. Compute the return the firm should earn given its level of risk. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Required return Determine whether the manager is saying the firm is undervalued or overvalued. Oundervalued % overvalued

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2- Assume that the market has an expected return of 12% and volatility (standard deviation) of 20%. Company X has a 50% volatility (standard deviation). The correlation between the market and Company X is 90%. The risk-free rate is 3%. What would be the expected return on Company X? (Hint: You have to check my lecture note (Lecture Note #10b - Risk and Return: Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)) 23% O 23,25% 23,50% 23,75% Diğer:
Mikkelson Corporation's stock had a required return of 13.75% last year, when the risk-free rate was 3% and the market risk premium was 4.75%. Then an increase in investor risk aversion caused the market risk premium to rise by 2%. The risk-free rate and the firm's beta remain unchanged. What is the company's new required rate of return? (Hint: First calculate the beta, then find the required return.) Do not round your intermediate calculations.
You forecast a company to have a ROE of 15%, a dividend payout ratio of 30%. The company has a beta of 1.2. The market risk premium is 8% and the risk free rate is 2%. What is company’s forward PE ratio based on the formula? If you also know currently the company has a price of $30, and you forecast the company to have a $1 earnings per share. If firms with similar risks in the industry have a PE ratio of 27 with an estimated earnings growth rate of 12%, is the company overvalued or undervalued based on PEG approach?
You have assigned the following values to these three firms: US Bancorp Praxair Eastman Kodak Price $34.55 37.80 50.35 Upcoming Dividend $ 2.35 1.36 2.00 US Bancorp required return Praxair required return Eastman Kodak required return Growth CAPM 6.20% Assume that the market portfolio will earn 13.30 percent and the risk-free rate is 6.00 percent. Compute the required return for each company using both CAPM and the constant-growth model. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answers to 2 decimal places. 0.18 X % 0.24 X % 0.11 % 13.50 13.80 X Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Beta 1.67 2.49 0.64 Constant-Growth Model 0.16 X % 0.18% 0.17
A firm wishes to assess the impact of changes in the market return on an asset that has a beta of 1.1. a. If the market return increased by 13%, what impact would this change be expected to have on the asset's return? b. If the market return decreased by 9%, what impact would this change be expected to have on the asset's return? c. If the market return did not change, what impact, if any, would be expected on the asset's return? d. Would this asset be considered more or less risky than the market?
Consider two investment opportunities A and B. Investment A: Expected return = 0.08, Standard deviation = 0.06 Investment B: Expected return = 0.24, Standard deviation = 0.08 Which investment would you choose A or B? Provide the rationale behind your decision. b. If company is selecting projects with the negative NPV, what impact this decision would have on the share price of the company c. While forecasting future sales, internal sales forecast is more appropriate or external sales forecast? d. Why are dividends the basis for the valuation of common stock? e. When the constant growth dividend valuation model is used to explain a stock's current price, the quantity (ke - g) represents the expected dividend yield. Is this statement right or wrong? Explain.
CAPM Required Return A company has a beta of 1.14. If the market return is expected to be 11.9 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.95 percent, what is the company's required return?
Alex Smith and Jane Green are portfolio managers at your firm. Each manages a well-diversified portfolio. Your boss has asked for your opinion regarding their performance in the past year. Alex’s portfolio has a beta of 0.8 and had a return of 9.5%; Jane’s portfolio has a beta of 1.6 and had a return of 11.5%. Which manager had better performance? Why? (Assumer the risk-free rate is 4% and the market risk premium is 5%).
6) An investor holds a portfolio of stocks and is considering investing in the DBB Company. The firm's prospects look neutral, and you estimate the following probability distribution of possible returns: Conditions Recession P Returns on DBB Returns on DVI 0.12 -33% -12% Below Average 0.15 -18% 7% Average 0.46 12% 11% Above Average 0.15 25% 23% Boom 0.12 37% 25% a) How much is the expected return for DBB? b) How much is the coefficient of variation for DBB? c) Now let's say you want to add another asset, DVI, to your portfolio. You sell 35% of DBB to purchase DVI. How much is your expected return for this portfolio? d) How much is the coefficient of variation for the new portfolio?
Consider an economy with two types of firms, S and I. S firms always move together, but I firms move independently of each other. For both types of firm there is a 60% probability that the firm will have a 20% return and a 40% probability that the firm will have a -30% return. The standard deviation for the return on a portfolio of 20 type S firms is closest to: 24% 23% 15% 35%
Please show all work and formulas in excel please! The Table for the problem is attached. Table below shows the historical returns for Companies A, B and C If one investor has a portfolio consisting of 50% Company A and 50% Company B, what are the average portfolio return and standard deviation? What is Sharpe ratio if the risk-free rate is 3.8%? If another investor has a portfolio consisting of 1/3 Company A, 1/3 Company B and 1/3 Company C, what are the average portfolio return and standard deviation? What is Sharpe ratio if the risk-free rate is 3.8% What would happen to the portfolio risk if more and more randomly selected stocks were added?
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