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You purchased a stock at a price of $50.93. The stock paid a dividend of $2.03 per share and the stock price at the end of the year is $57.13. What isthe capital gains yield?

One year ago, you purchased a stock at a price of $58.03 per share. Today, you sold your stock at a loss of 18.23 percent. Your capital loss was $12.59 per share. What was the dividend yield on this stock?

You purchased 950 shares of Barrett Golf Corporation stock at a price of $36.19 per share. While you owned the stock,you received dividends totaling$.49 per share. Today, you sold your stock at a price of $39.14 per share. What was your total dollar return on the investment?

Bennett Company has a potential new project that is expected to generate annual revenues of $255,800, with variable costs of $141,200, and fixed costs of $59,200. To finance the new project, the company will need to issue new debt that will have an annual interest expense of $21,000. The annual depreciation is $23,800 and the tax rate is 21 percent. What is the annual operating cash flow?

A project has cash flows of −$35,000, $0, $10,000, and $42,000 for Years 0 to 3, respectively. The required rate of return is 15 percent. Based on the internal rate of return of _____ percent, you should _____ the project.

An investment earned annual returns of 7 percent, −32 percent, 11.5 percent, and 21.4 percent during the past four years. If you wish to know the compound annual rate of growth that the investment experienced, you should determine the ________, which equals ________ percent.

You own a portfolio with the following expected returns given the various states of the economy. What is the overall portfolio expected return? State of Economy Probability of State of Economy Rate of Return if State Occurs Boom .11 .110 Normal .68 .045 Bust .21 −.045

Assume a project has cash flows of −$54,300, $18,200, $37,300, and $14,300 for Years 0 to 3, respectively. What is the profitability index given a required return of 12.6 percent?

The Daily Brew has a debt-equity ratio of .57. The firm is analyzing a new project that requires an initial cash outlay of $260,000 for equipment. The flotation cost is 9.1 percent for equity and 4.4 percent for debt. What is the initial cost of the project including the flotation costs?

Arnold Belt and Bearing has identified two mutually exclusive projects. Project A has cash flows of −$40,000, $21,200, $16,800, and $14,000 for Years 0 to 3, respectively. Project B has a cost of $38,000 and annual cash inflows of $25,500 for 2 years. At what rate would you be indifferent between these two projects?