Fin 335, ch(10-12) 14
Five years ago, you purchased 600 shares of stock. The annual returns have been 7.2 percent, -19.4 percent, 3.8 percent, 14.2 percent, and 27.9 percent, respectively. What is the variance of these returns?
0.028453
Nominal return on small-company stocks = 3.9 percent + 12.6 percent = 16.50 percent Over the past five years, a stock returned 8.3 percent, -32.5 percent, -2.2 percent, 46.9 percent, and 11.8 percent, respectively. What is the variance of these returns?
0.081504
Ben & Terry's has an expected return of 12.9 percent and a beta of 1.25. The expected return on the market is 11.7 percent. What is the risk-free rate?
6.92 percent
Katie owns 100 shares of ABC stock. Which one of the following terms is used to refer to the return that Katie and the other shareholders require on their investment in ABC?
Cost of equity
In an efficient market, the cost of equity for a risky firm does which one of the following according to the security market line?
Increases in direct relation to the stock's systematic risk
Which one of the following statements is correct?
The cost of preferred stock is unaffected by the issuer's tax rate.
Portfolio diversification eliminates which one of the following
Unsystematic risk
Which one of the following is defined as a bell-shaped frequency distribution that is defined by its average and its standard deviation?
normal distribution
If the financial markets are efficient then:
stock prices should respond only to unexpected news and events.
The average risk premium on long-term government bonds for the period 1926-2011 was equal to:
the rate of return on the bonds minus the T-bill rate.
Standard deviation measures _____ risk while beta measures _____ risk
total; systematic
The standard deviation measures the _____ of a security's returns over time.
volatility
One year ago, you purchased 500 shares of stock for $12 a share. The stock pays $0.22 a share in dividends each year. Today, you sold your shares for $28.30 a share. What is your total dollar return on this investment?
$8,260 Total dollar return = 500 × ($28.30 - $12 + $0.22) = $8,260
Over the past four years, a stock produced returns of 15 percent, 6 percent, 11 percent, and 22 percent, respectively. Based on these four years, what range of returns would you expect to see 95 percent of the time?
-0.02 percent to 27.02 percent
Over the past four years, a stock produced returns of 23 percent, -39 percent, 4 percent, and 16 percent, respectively. Based on these four years, what range of returns would you expect to see 99 percent of the time?
-82.39 percent to 84.39 percent
The common stock of Hillshire Farms has yielded 16.3 percent, 7.2 percent, 11.8 percent, -3.6 percent, and 9.7 percent over the past five years, respectively. What is the geometric average return?
.07 percen
BJB, Inc. stock has an expected return of 15.15 percent. The risk-free rate is 3.8 percent and the market risk premium is 8.6 percent. What is the stock's beta?
1.32
You would like to create a portfolio that is equally invested in a risk-free asset and two stocks. One stock has a beta of 1.15. What does the beta of the second stock have to be if you want the portfolio to be equally as risky as the overall market?
1.85
Sugar and Spice stock is expected to produce the following returns given the various states of the economy. What is the expected return on this stock?
10.05 percent
Musical Charts just paid an annual dividend of $2.45 per share. This dividend is expected to increase by 3.3 percent annually. Currently, the firm has a beta of 1.09 and a stock price of $36 a share. The risk-free rate is 4.2 percent and the market rate of return is 12.6 percent. What is the cost of equity capital for this firm?
11.84
Country Kitchen's cost of equity is 15.3 percent and its aftertax cost of debt is 6.9 percent. What is the firm's weighted average cost of capital if its debt-equity ratio is 0.58 and the tax rate is 30 percent?
12.21
You own a portfolio that is invested 38 percent in Stock A, 43 percent in Stock B, and the remainder in Stock C. The expected returns on these stocks are 10.9 percent, 15.4 percent, and 9.1 percent, respectively. What is the expected return on the portfolio?
12.49 percent
Western Electric has 23,000 shares of common stock outstanding at a price per share of $57 and a rate of return of 14.2 percent. The firm has 6,000 shares of 7 percent preferred stock outstanding at a price of $48 a share. The preferred stock has a par value of $100. The outstanding debt has a total face value of $350,000 and currently sells for 102 percent of face. The yield to maturity on the debt is 8.49 percent. What is the firm's weighted average cost of capital if the tax rate is 34 percent?
12.69
Over the past six years, a stock had annual returns of 14 percent, -3 percent, 8 percent, 21 percent, -16 percent, and 4 percent, respectively. What is the standard deviation of these returns?
13.05 percent
he preferred stock of Dolphin Pools pays an annual dividend of $6.25 a share and sells for $42 a share. The tax rate is 35 percent. What is the firm's cost of preferred stock?
14.88
A stock has produced returns of 11 percent, 18 percent, -6 percent, -13 percent, and 21 percent for the past five years, respectively. What is the standard deviation of these returns?
14.99 percent
You expect the inflation rate to be 3.8 percent and the U.S. Treasury bill yield to be 3.9 percent for the next year. The risk premium on small-company stocks is 12.6 percent. What nominal rate of return do you expect to earn on small-company stocks next year?
16.5 percent
The 7.5 percent preferred stock of Home Town Brewers is selling for $45 a share. What is the firm's cost of preferred stock if the tax rate is 35 percent and the par value per share is $100?
16.67 perce
Bama Entertainment has common stock with a beta of 1.46. The market risk premium is 9.3 percent and the risk-free rate is 4.6 percent. What is the expected return on this stock?
18.03 percent
The common stock of Contemporary Interiors has a beta of 1.65 and a standard deviation of 27.4 percent. The market rate of return is 13.2 percent and the risk-free rate is 4.8 percent. What is the cost of equity for this firm?
18.66 percent
The ex-dividend date is defined as _____ day(s) before the date of record.
2 businesses
Given the following information, what is the standard deviation of the returns on this stock?
25.52 percent
Hercules Movers pays a constant annual dividend of $1.75 per share on its stock. Last year at this time, the market rate of return on this stock was 14.8 percent. Today, the market rate has fallen to 11.2 percent. What would your capital gains yield have been if you had purchased this stock one year ago and then sold the stock today?
32.14 percent
Noah's Landing stock is expected to produce the following returns given the various states of the economy. What is the expected return on this stock?
4.05 percent
A stock has produced returns of 16.6 percent, 3.4 percent, 11.7 percent, and -9.2 percent over the past four years, respectively. What is the geometric average return?
5.16 percent
The Green Balloon just paid its first annual dividend of $0.12 a share. The firm plans to increase the dividend by 3.5 percent per year indefinitely. What is the firm's cost of equity if the current stock price is $6.50 a share?
5.41
USA Manufacturing issued 30-year, 8.5 percent semiannual bonds 6 years ago. The bonds currently sell at 101 percent of face value. What is the firm's aftertax cost of debt if the tax rate is 30 percent?
5.88
Kim's Bridal Shoppe has 15,000 shares of common stock outstanding at a price of $11 a share. It also has 2,000 shares of preferred stock outstanding at a price of $34 a share. There are 50 bonds outstanding that have a 7.5 percent semiannual coupon. The bonds mature in six years, have a face value of $1,000, and sell at 96 percent of par. What is the capital structure weight of the common stock?
58.782
Sarah earned a 2.9 percent real rate of return on her investments for the past year. During that time, the risk-free rate was 4.1 percent and the inflation rate was 3.6 percent. What was her nominal rate of return?
6.60 percent
Judy's Boutique just paid an annual dividend of $1.65 on its common stock. The firm increases its dividend by 2.5 percent annually. What is the rate of return on this stock if the current stock price is $38.20 a share?
6.93 percent
Last year, Isaac earned 10.6 percent on her investments while U.S. Treasury bills yielded 3.8 percent and the inflation rate was 3.1 percent. What real rate of return did she earn on her investments last year?
7.27 percent
Your portfolio has provided you with returns of 8.6 percent, 14.2 percent, -3.7 percent, and 12.0 percent over the past four years, respectively. What is the geometric average return for this period?
7.54 percent
Aaron's Rentals has 58,000 shares of common stock outstanding at a market price of $36 a share. The common stock just paid a $1.64 annual dividend and has a dividend growth rate of 2.8 percent. There are 12,000 shares of 6 percent preferred stock outstanding at a market price of $51 a share. The preferred stock has a par value of $100. The outstanding bonds mature in 17 years, have a total face value of $750,000, a face value per bond of $1,000, and a market price of $1,011 each. The bonds pay 8 percent interest, semiannually. The tax rate is 34 percent. What is the firm's weighted average cost of capital
7.74
Given the following information, what is the standard deviation of the returns on this stock?
7.80
Smith and Weston has 55,000 shares of common stock outstanding at a price of $31 a share. It also has 3,000 shares of preferred stock outstanding at a price of $62 a share. The firm has 8 percent, 12-year bonds outstanding with a total face value of $400,000. The bonds are currently quoted at 101.2 percent of face and pay interest semiannually. What is the capital structure weight of the firm's preferred stock if the tax rate is 35 percent?
8.1
Which one of the following portfolios will have a beta of zero?
A portfolio comprised solely of U. S. Treasury bills
Which one of the following is the best example of unsystematic risk?
A warehouse fire
Beasley Enterprises stock has an expected return of 11.5 percent. Given the information below, what is the expected return if the economy is in a recession?
A. -5.72 percent
Boone Brothers remodels homes and replaces windows. Ace Builders constructs new homes. If Boone Brothers considers expanding into new home construction, it should evaluate the expansion project using which one of the following as the required return for the project?
Ace Builders' cost of capital
An efficient capital market is best defined as a market in which security prices reflect which one of the following?
Available information
Which one of the following measures the amount of systematic risk present in a particular risky asset relative to that in an average risky asset?
Beta coefficient
The Five and Dime Store has a cost of equity of 15.8 percent, a pretax cost of debt of 7.7 percent, and a tax rate of 35 percent. What is the firm's weighted average cost of capital if the debt-equity ratio is 0.40?
C. 12.72 percent
One year ago, you bought a stock for $36.48 a share. You received a dividend of $1.62 per share last month and sold the stock today for $41.18 a share. What is the capital gains yield on this investment?
Capital gains yield = ($41.18 - $36.48)/$36.48 = 12.88 percent
Which one of the following best defines a regular cash dividend?
Cash payment by a firm to its owners as part of a firm's normal operations
Which one of the following is the minimum required rate of return on a new investment that makes that investment attractive?
Cost of capital
The stock of Southern United is priced at $40 a share and has a dividend yield of 2.1 percent. The firm pays constant annual dividends. What is the amount of the next dividend per share?
D = 0.021 × $40 = $0.84
Which one of the following is the date on which the board of directors agrees to pay a dividend and passes a resolution to do so?
Declaration date
Which one of the following is the best example of systematic risk?
Decrease in gross domestic product
Which one of the following terms best refers to the practice of investing in a variety of diverse assets as a means of reducing risk?
Diversification
Which one of the following is a payment of either cash or shares of stock that is paid out of earnings to a firm's shareholders?
Dividend
The clientele effect states that investors fall into various groups because of differences in their preferences for which one of the following?
Dividends
Which of the following features are advantages of the dividend growth model?
Easy to understand, Model simplicity
Fiddler's Music Stores' stock has a risk premium of 9.6 percent while the inflation rate is 4.1 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.9 percent. What is the expected return on this stock?
Expected return = 0.039 + 0.096 = 13.5 percent
The security market line is a linear function that is graphed by plotting data points based on the relationship between which two of the following variables?
Expected return and beta
Which one of the following is a drawback of cash dividends?
Firms may have to forgo positive net present value projects.
Which one of the following would tend to favor a low-dividend payout?
High flotation cost for equity issues
Which of the following terms can be used to describe unsystematic risk?
I, II, and IV only
Which one of the following is an example of systematic risk?
Increase in consumption created by a reduction in personal tax rates
Which one of the following will decrease the aftertax cost of debt for a firm?
Increase in tax rates
Which of the following are weaknesses of the dividend growth model?
Lack of dividends for some firms Sensitivity of model to dividend growth rate
Which one of the following is the primary determinant of an investment's cost of capital?
Level of risk
Research conducted on firms' dividend policies over time support which one of the following conclusions?
Managers tend to smooth dividends.
Which one of the following is the slope of the security market line?
Market risk premium
When, if ever, will the geometric average return exceed the arithmetic average return for a given set of returns?
Never
The risk-free rate is 4.2 percent and the expected return on the market is 12.3 percent. Stock A has a beta of 1.2 and an expected return of 13.1 percent. Stock B has a beta of 0.75 and an expected return of 11.4 percent. Are these stocks correctly priced? Why or why not?
No, Stock A is overpriced and Stock B is underpriced.
Which one of the following tends to be the primary attitude of firms' toward their dividend policy?
Once a dividend is increased, it should not be decreased.
Stock A comprises 28 percent of Susan's portfolio. Which one of the following terms applies to the 28 percent?
Portfolio weight
Ted is trying to decide what cost of capital he should assign to a project. Which one of the following should be his primary consideration in this decision?
Risk level of the project
Which one of the following describes systemic risk?
Risk that affects a large number of assets
Over the period of 1926-2011, which one of the following investment classes had the highest volatility of returns?
Small-company stocks
This morning, Lambert Materials bought 10,000 of its outstanding shares in the open market. What type of transaction was this?
Stock repurchase
Which one of the following increases the number of shares outstanding but does not increase the value of owners' equity
Stock split
The risk premium for an individual security is based on which one of the following types of risk?
Systematic
) Joseph Turner and Sons has 125,000 shares of stock outstanding. The firm has extra cash so it announced this morning that it is willing to repurchase 25,000 of its shares. What type of offer is the firm making?
Tender offer
New Labs just announced that it has received a patent for a product that will eliminate all flu viruses. This news is totally unexpected and viewed as a major medical advancement. Which one of the following reactions to this announcement indicates the market for New Labs stock is efficient?
The price of New Labs stock increases rapidly to a higher price and then remains at that price.
twelve days ago, DOG, Inc. declared a dividend of $1.34 a share. The ex-dividend date is tomorrow. All else constant, which one of the following is the best estimate of DOG, Inc.'s opening stock price tomorrow?
Today's closing price minus an amount approximately equal to the aftertax value of the dividend
One year ago, you purchased a 5 percent coupon bond with a face value of $1,000 when it was selling for 101.2 percent of par. Today, you sold this bond for 99.8 percent of par. What is your total dollar return on this investment?
Total dollar return = (0.998 × $1,000) - (1.012 × $1,000) + (0.05 × $1,000) = $36
Which one of the following best exemplifies unsystematic risk?
Unexpected increase in the variable costs for a firm
You own a $46,000 portfolio comprised of four stocks. The values of Stocks A, B, and C are $5,600, $16,700, and $11,400, respectively. What is the portfolio weight of Stock D?
ValueD = $46,000 - $6,600 - $16,700 - $11,400 = $11,300 WeightD = $11,300/$46,000 = 24.57 percent
You own a portfolio that is invested as follows: $11,400 of Stock A, $8,800 of Stock B, $14,900 of Stock C, and $3,200 of Stock D. What is the portfolio weight of Stock C?
WeightC = $14,900/($11,400 + $8,800 + $14,900 + $3,200) = 38.90 percent
Which one of the following represents the rate of return a firm must earn on its assets if it is to maintain the current value of its securities
Weighted average cost of capital
Semistrong form market efficiency states that the value of a security is based on:
all publicly available information.
Which one of the following factors favors a high-dividend payout?
corporate shareholders
Lester lent money to The Corner Store by purchasing bonds issued by the store. The rate of return that he and the other lenders require is referred to as the:
cost of debt
On which one of the following dates is the determination made as to which shareholders will receive a dividend payment?
date of record
Downtown Merchants has paid a quarterly dividend of $0.60 per share for the past two years. This quarter, the firm plans to pay $0.60 plus an additional $0.05. The firm has stated that it uncertain whether it will pay $0.60 or $0.65 per share next quarter. Which one of the following is the best description of the additional $0.05 that is being paid this quarter?
extra dividend
The lower the standard deviation of returns on a security, the _____ the expected rate of return and the _____ the risk.
higher; higher
systematic risk is:
measured by beta.
Investors require a 4 percent return on risk-free investments. On a particular risky investment, investors require an excess return of 7 percent in addition to the risk-free rate of 4 percent. What is this excess return called?
risk premium
Which one of the following is the positive square root of the variance?
standard deviation
Which one of the following is a noncash payment made by a firm to its shareholders and is a payment that lessens the value of each outstanding share?
stock dividend