What is the portfolios beta

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Question: (Portfolio beta) Assume you have the following portfolio.

What is the portfolio's beta?

a. Use the price data from the table that follows for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, Wal-Mart, and Target to calculate the holding-period returns for the 24 months from May 2013 through May 2015

b. Calculate the average monthly holding-period returns and the standard deviation of these returns for the S&P 500 Index, Wal-Mart, and Target.

c. Plot (1) the holding-period returns for Wal-Mart against the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, and (2) the Target holding-period returns against the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. (Use Figure 6-5 as the format for your graph.)

d. From your graphs in part (c), describe the nature of the relationship between the stock returns for Wal-Mart and the returns for the S&P 500 Index. Make the same comparison for Target.

e. Assume that you have decided to invest one-half of your money in Wal-Mart and the remainder in Target. Calculate the monthly holding-period returns for your two-stock portfolio

f. Plot the returns of your two-stock portfolio against the Standard & Poor's 500 Index as you did for the individual stocks in part (c). How does this graph compare to the graphs for the individual stocks? Explain the difference.

g. The following table shows the returns on an annualized basis that were realized from holding long-term government bonds for the same period. Calculate the average monthly holding-period returns and the standard deviations of these returns.

h. Now assuming that you have decided to invest equal amounts of money in Wal-Mart, Target, and long-term government securities, calculate the monthly returns for your three-asset portfolio. What are the average return and the standard deviation?

i. Make a comparison of the average returns and the standard deviations for all the individual assets and the two portfolios that we designed (in part e and h). What conclusions can be reached by your comparison?

j. According to Standard & Poor's, the betas for Wal-Mart and Target are 0.28 and 0.75, respectively. Compare the meaning of these betas relative to the standard deviations calculated above.

k. Assume that the current Treasury bill rate is 3 percent and that the expected market return is 10 percent. Given the betas for Wal-Mart and Target in part (j), estimate an appropriate rate of return for the two firms.

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