Exam 29: Basic Financial Tools: a Review

Haswell Enterprises' bonds have a 10-year maturity,a 6.25% semiannual coupon,and a par value of $1,000.The going interest rate (r_d)is 4.75%,based on semiannual compounding.What is the bond's price?

A U.S.Treasury bond will pay a lump sum of $1,000 exactly 3 years from today.The nominal interest rate is 6%,semiannual compounding.Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Assume that all interest rates in the economy decline from 10% to 9%.Which of the following bonds would have the largest percentage increase in price?

On January 1,2016,your sister's pet supplies business obtained a 30-year amortized mortgage loan for $250,000 at a nominal annual rate of 7.0%,with 360 end-of-month payments.The firm can deduct the interest paid for tax purposes.What will the interest tax deduction be for 2016?

Charlie and Lucinda each have $50,000 invested in stock portfolios.Charlie's has a beta of 1.2,an expected return of 10.8%,and a standard deviation of 25%.Lucinda's has a beta of 0.8,an expected return of 9.2%,and a standard deviation that is also 25%.The correlation coefficient,r,between Charlie's and Lucinda's portfolios is zero.If Charlie and Lucinda marry and combine their portfolios,which of the following best describes their combined $100,000 portfolio?

Freedman Flowers' stock has a 50% chance of producing a 25% return,a 30% chance of producing a 10% return,and a 20% chance of producing a −28% return.What is the firm's expected rate of return?

The tighter the probability distribution of its expected future returns,the greater the risk of a given investment as measured by its standard deviation.

Assume that you own an annuity that will pay you $15,000 per year for 12 years,with the first payment being made today.You need money today to open a new restaurant,and your uncle offers to give you $120,000 for the annuity.If you sell it,what rate of return would your uncle earn on his investment?

Any change in its beta is likely to affect the required rate of return on a stock,which implies that a change in beta will likely have an impact on the stock's price,other things held constant.

Stocks A and B are quite similar: Each has an expected return of 12%,a beta of 1.2,and a standard deviation of 25%.The returns on the two stocks have a correlation of 0.6.Portfolio P has 50% in Stock A and 50% in Stock B.Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

If D₁ = $1.25,g (which is constant)= 4.7%,and P₀ = $26.00,what is the stock's expected dividend yield for the coming year?

Your cousin will sell you his coffee shop for $250,000,with "seller financing," at a 6.0% nominal annual rate.The terms of the loan would require you to make 12 equal end-of-month payments per year for 4 years,and then make an additional final (balloon)payment of $50,000 at the end of the last month.What would your equal monthly payments be?

Donald Gilmore has $100,000 invested in a 2-stock portfolio.$35,000 is invested in Stock X and the remainder is invested in Stock Y.X's beta is 1.50 and Y's beta is 0.70.What is the portfolio's beta?

A zero coupon bond is a bond that pays no interest and is offered (and subsequently sells initially)at par.These bonds provide compensation to investors in the form of capital appreciation.

Of the following investments,which would have the lowest present value? Assume that the effective annual rate for all investments is the same and is greater than zero.

You plan to borrow $35,000 at a 7.5% annual interest rate.The terms require you to amortize the loan with 7 equal end-of-year payments.How much interest would you be paying in Year 2?

Which of the following is most likely to occur as you add randomly selected stocks to your portfolio,which currently consists of 3 average stocks?

One key conclusion of the Capital Asset Pricing Model is that the value of an asset should be measured by considering both the risk and the expected return of the asset,assuming that the asset is held in a well-diversified portfolio.The risk of the asset held in isolation is not relevant under the CAPM.

The last dividend paid by Wilden Corporation was $1.55.The dividend growth rate is expected to be constant at 1.5% for 2 years,after which dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 8.0% forever.The firm's required return (r_s)is 12.0%.What is the best estimate of the current stock price?

An individual stock's diversifiable risk,which is measured by its beta,can be lowered by adding more stocks to the portfolio in which the stock is held.