Exam 6: Risk and return

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?

Stock X has a beta of 0.6, while Stock Y has a beta of 1.4.Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

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.

Company A has a beta of 0.70, while Company B's beta is 1.20.The required return on the stock market is 11.00%, and the risk-free rate is 4.25%.What is the difference between A's and B's required rates of return? (Hint: First find the market risk premium, then find the required returns on the stocks.)

According to the Capital Asset Pricing Model, investors are primarily concerned with portfolio risk, not the risks of individual stocks held in isolation.Thus, the relevant risk of a stock is the stock's contribution to the riskiness of a well-diversified portfolio.

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?

Barker Corp.has a beta of 1.10, the real risk-free rate is 2.00%, investors expect a 3.00% future inflation rate, and the market risk premium is 4.70%.What is Barker's required rate of return?

In a portfolio of three randomly selected stocks, which of the following could NOT be true; i.e., which statement is false?

Someone who is risk averse has a general dislike for risk and a preference for certainty.If risk aversion exists in the market, then investors in general are willing to accept somewhat lower returns on less risky securities.Different investors have different degrees of risk aversion, and the end result is that investors with greater risk aversion tend to hold securities with lower risk (and therefore a lower expected return)than investors who have more tolerance for risk.

Stock A has an expected return of 12%, a beta of 1.2, and a standard deviation of 20%.Stock B also has a beta of 1.2, but its expected return is 10% and its standard deviation is 15%.Portfolio AB has $300, 000 invested in Stock A and $100, 000 invested in Stock B.The correlation between the two stocks' returns is zero (that is, rA, B = 0).Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Fiske Roofing Supplies' stock has a beta of 1.23, its required return is 11.75%, and the risk-free rate is 4.30%.What is the required rate of return on the market? (Hint: First find the market risk premium.)

Nystrand Corporation's stock has an expected return of 12.25%, a beta of 1.25, and is in equilibrium.If the risk-free rate is 5.00%, what is the market risk premium?

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

DHF Company has a beta of 1.5 and is currently in equilibrium.The required rate of return on the stock is 12.00% versus a required return on an average stock of 10.00%.Now the required return on an average stock increases by 30.0% (not percentage points).Neither betas nor the risk-free rate change.What would DHF's new required return be?

Bad managerial judgments or unforeseen negative events that happen to a firm are defined as "company-specific, " or "unsystematic, " events, and their effects on investment risk can in theory be diversified away.

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.

Portfolio P has equal amounts invested in each of the three stocks, A, B, and C.Stock A has a beta of 0.8, Stock B has a beta of 1.0, and Stock C has a beta of 1.2.Each of the stocks has a standard deviation of 25%.The returns on the three stocks are independent of one another (i.e., the correlation coefficients all equal zero).Assume that there is an increase in the market risk premium, but the risk-free rate remains unchanged.Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

How would the Security Market Line be affected, other things held constant, if the expected inflation rate decreases and investors also become more risk averse?

Stock A's stock has a beta of 1.30, and its required return is 12.00%.Stock B's beta is 0.80.If the risk-free rate is 4.75%, what is the required rate of return on B's stock? (Hint: First find the market risk premium.)

Dixon Food's stock has a beta of 1.4, while Clark Café's stock has a beta of 0.7.Assume that the risk-free rate, rRF, is 5.5% and the market risk premium, (rM - rRF), equals 4%.Which of the following statements is CORRECT?