EBK FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE
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Chapter 12, Problem 18P
Summary Introduction
Standard deviation of portfolio:
Volatility refers to a formal measure of risks involved in stocks. The higher the volatility of a stock, the greater is its ups and down swings. The volatility of a portfolio of stocks is a measure of how the total value of the stocks in a portfolio appreciates or declines. It can be obtained by the measuring the standard deviation of the portfolio.
Expected Return of a Portfolio
The Expected Return of a Portfolio 
refers to the weighted average of the expected returns on each individual investment in a particular portfolio. The expected return of a portfolio is hence related to the expected return of the stocks in a portfolio.
The Expected Return of a Portfolio can be calculated using the formula given below.
Where,
is the expected return of portfolio.
is the weight of the investment or stock.
is the expected return of investment or stock.
To ascertain: The stock to be added to the portfolio and expected return and standard deviation of the portfolio.
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EBK FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE
Ch. 12 - Prob. 1CCCh. 12 - How is the expected return of a portfolio related...Ch. 12 - What determines how much risk will be eliminated...Ch. 12 - When do stocks have more or less correlation?Ch. 12 - What is the market portfolio?Ch. 12 - Prob. 6CCCh. 12 - Prob. 7CCCh. 12 - Prob. 8CCCh. 12 - Prob. 1CTCh. 12 - What does correlation tell us?
Ch. 12 - Prob. 3CTCh. 12 - What does beta measure? How do we use beta?Ch. 12 - Prob. 5CTCh. 12 - Prob. 6CTCh. 12 - You buy 100 shares of Tidepool Co. for $40 each...Ch. 12 - You buy 100 shares of Tidepool Co. for $40 each...Ch. 12 - Prob. 3PCh. 12 - You have $70,000. You put 20% of your money in a...Ch. 12 - 6. There are two ways to calculate the expected...Ch. 12 - Prob. 6PCh. 12 - 8. Stocks A and B have the following returns (see...Ch. 12 - 9. Using the data in the following table, estimate...Ch. 12 - Using your estimates from Problem 9 and the fact...Ch. 12 - Prob. 10PCh. 12 - Using the spreadsheet from Problem Il and the fact...Ch. 12 - 13. Using the data in Table 12.2,
Compute the...Ch. 12 - Prob. 13PCh. 12 - Prob. 14PCh. 12 - Prob. 15PCh. 12 - Prob. 16PCh. 12 - Prob. 17PCh. 12 - Prob. 18PCh. 12 - Prob. 19PCh. 12 - Prob. 20PCh. 12 - Prob. 21PCh. 12 - Prob. 22PCh. 12 - Prob. 23PCh. 12 - Prob. 24PCh. 12 - Prob. 25PCh. 12 - Prob. 26PCh. 12 - Prob. 27PCh. 12 - Prob. 28PCh. 12 - Prob. 29PCh. 12 - Prob. 30PCh. 12 - Prob. 31PCh. 12 - Prob. 32PCh. 12 - Prob. 33PCh. 12 - Prob. 34P
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