You purchased one EAW, Inc. 6 percent coupon bond one year ago for $1,020. The bond makes annual payments and matures four years from now. You sell the bond today when the required return is 5 percent. The inflation rate was 2.8 percent over the past..
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Consider the following capital market: a risk-free asset yielding 0.75% per year and a mutual fund consisting of 70% stocks and 30% bonds. The expected return on stocks is 10.75% per year and the expected return on bonds is 3.25% per year.
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(Calculating operating cash flows) assume that a new project will annually generate revenues of $ 2,600,000. Cash expenses including both fixed and variable costs will be $ 500,000, and depreciation will increase by $ 180,000 per year. In addition, l..
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Rogue Industries reported the following items for the current year: Sales = $3,000,000; Cost of Goods Sold = $1,500,000; Depreciation Expense = $170,000; Administrative Expenses = $150,000; Interest Expense = $30,000; Marketing Expenses = $80,000; an..
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Suppose that the annual expected rates of inflation over each of the next five years are 5 percent, 6 percent, 9 percent, 13 percent, and 12 percent, respectively. What is the average expected rate of inflation over the 5-year period? Use the arithme..
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You own a stock portfolio invested 20 percent in Stock Q, 20 percent in Stock R, 20 percent in Stock S, and 40 percent in Stock T. The betas for these four stocks are 1.53, 1.38, 0.9, and 1.01, respectively. What is the portfolio beta?
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You expect that your daughter will go to college ten years from now. Taking account of inflation, you estimate that you will need $160,000 to support her during her years in college. Assume an interest rate of 4 percent on your savings accounts. How ..
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Try to determine the required rate of return on Mary Farm Corp. common stock. The firm's beta is 1.6. The rate on a 10-year treasury bond is 2.38%, and the market return is 8.06%
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Expected Return Standard Deviation Russell Fund 16% 12% Windsor Fund 14% 10% S&P Fund 12% 8% The correlation between the returns on the Russell Fund and the S&P Fund is .7. The rate on T-bills is 6%. Which of the following portfolios would you prefer..
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A Treasury bill has a bid yield of 2.13% and an ask yield of 2.09%. The bill matures in 209 days. Assume a face value of $1,000. What is the least you could pay to acquire a bill?
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You have $258,000 to invest in a stock portfolio. Your choices are Stock H, with an expected return of 14.3 percent, and Stock L, with an expected return of 10.9 percent.
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Paradise Tours, Inc. just paid a dividend of $3.50. Analysts expect the company's dividend to grow by 35% this year, by 20% in year 2, and at a constant rate of 5% in Year 3 and thereafter. The required rate of return on PTI's stock is 15.00%. What i..
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