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Based on the past 13 years, Valdez Interiors common stock has yielded an arithmetic average rate of return of 12.6 percent. The geometric average return for the same period was 11.8 percent. What is the estimated return on this stock for the next three years according to Blume’s formula?

Your portfolio is invested 25 percent each in Stocks A and C, and 50 percent in Stock B. What is the standard deviation of your portfolio given the following information? State of Economy Probability of State of Economy Rate of Return if State Occurs Stock A Stock B Stock C Boom .07 .28 .14 .11 Good .55 .19 .12 .09 Poor .36 −.21 .07 .06 Bust .02 −.65 .03 −.03

A stock had returns of 11.18 percent, −15.37 percent,21.53 percent, 26.67 percent, and 9.93 percent over the past five years. What was the geometric average return for this stock?

A stock had annual returns of 7 percent, −28 percent, 13 percent, and 23 percent for the past four years. The arithmetic average of these returns is _____ percent while the geometric average return for the period is _____ percent.

Wayco Industrial Supply has a pretax cost of debt of 8.3 percent, a cost of equity of 14.7 percent, and a cost of preferred stock of 8.9 percent. The firm has 165,000 shares of common stock outstanding at a market price of $33 per share. There are 15,000 shares of preferred stock outstanding at a market price of $43 per share. The bond issue has a face value of $750,000 and a market quote of 101. The company’s tax rate is 21 percent. What is the weighted average cost of capital?

Last year, you purchased 740 shares of Forever, Incorporated, stock at a price of $50.50 per share. You received $1,110 in dividends and a total of $44,304 when you sold the stock. What was the capital gains yield on this stock?

Granite Works maintains a debt-equity ratio of .58 and has a tax rate of 21 percent. The pretax cost of debt is 8.9 percent. There are 18,000 shares of stock outstanding with a beta of 1.42 and a market price of $23 per share. The current market risk premium is 7.8 percent and the current risk-free rate is 3.1 percent. This year, the firm paid an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and expects to increase that amount by 2 percent each year. Using an average expected cost of equity, what is the weighted average cost of capital?

A 5-year project requires a $20,000 investment in machinery that will be depreciated on a straight-line basis to a value of $0 over its 5-year life. The project will have net income of $6,000 per year and operating cash inflows of $7,500 per year. What is the payback period?

Last year, you purchased a stock at a price of $70.00 a share. Over the course of the year, you received $1.50 per share in dividends and inflation averaged 2 percent. Today, you sold your shares for $73.20 a share. What is your approximate real rate of return on this investment?

The terms of sale generally include all of the following except the: