Exam 10: Lessons From Market History

Today,you sold 300 shares of SLG stock and realized a total return of 12.5 percent.You purchased the shares one year ago at a price of $27.43 a share.You have received a total of $192 in dividends.What is your capital gains yield on this investment?

The average annual return on small-company stocks was about ________ percentage points greater than the average annual return on large-company stocks over the period of 1926 to 2017.

You purchased 300 shares of stock at a price of $37.23 per share.Over the last year,you have received total dividend income of $351.What is the capital gains yield if your total return is 11.47 percent?

Based on the period of 1926 through 2017,________ have tended to outperform other securities over the long-term.

Which one of the following is a correct ranking of securities based on their volatility over the period of 1926 to 2017? Rank from highest to lowest volatility.

The returns on a portfolio over the last five years were −5.2 percent,21.6 percent,4.5 percent,11.7 percent,and 5.9 percent.What is the standard deviation of these returns?

A stock had returns of 9 percent,−6 percent,4 percent,and 16 percent over the past four years.What is the standard deviation of these returns?

In 2008,which asset class had the highest rate of return in the U.S.?

On average,for the period 1926 through 2017:

Two years ago,you purchased 100 shares of stock in ABC at a price of $43.26 a share.The stock pays an annual dividend of $.10 a share.Today,you sold all your shares for $46.71 per share.What is your holding period return?

Winslow,Inc.,stock is currently selling for $40 a share.The stock has a dividend yield of 3.8 percent.How much dividend income will you receive per year if you purchase 600 shares of this stock?

You bought 600 shares of stock at $24.20 each.At the end of the year,you received a total of $720 in dividends,and your stock was worth a total of $15,678.What was your total dollar capital gain and total dollar return?

Six months ago,you purchased 1,200 shares of ABC stock for $21.20 a share and have received total dividend payments of $.60 a share.Today,you sold all your shares for $22.20 a share.What is your total dollar return on this investment?

A stock was priced at $23.08,$24.15,$23.99,and $24.26 at end of Years 1 to 4,respectively.The annual dividend is constant at $.20 a share.What is the geometric average return on this stock?

Suppose you own a risky asset with an expected return of 12.6 percent and a standard deviation of 18.2 percent.If the returns are normally distributed,the most accurate probability that the stock will return more than 50 percent in any one given year is best described as less than:

A stock had returns of 8 percent,39 percent,11 percent,and −24 percent for the past four years.Which one of the following best describes the probability that this stock will not lose more than 43 percent in any one given year?

The average squared difference between the actual return and the average return is called the:

What are the arithmetic and geometric (Answer in that order.)average returns for a stock with annual returns of 9.4 percent,8.2 percent,−7.3 percent,4.1 percent,and 9.5 percent?

A year ago,you purchased 300 shares of New Tech stock at a price of $49.03 per share.The stock pays an annual dividend of $.10 per share.Today,you sold all your shares for $58.14 per share.What is your total dollar return on this investment?

Assume you are comparing two stocks that are identical in every way except that one stock pays dividends and the other does not.How would you expect this difference to affect the annual performance of the dividend-paying stock as compared to the non-dividend-paying stock?