Last year, you purchased a stock at a price of $64.67 a share. Over the course of the year, you received $2.70 per share in dividends and inflation averaged 1.83 percent. Today, you sold your shares for $82.23 a share. What is your approximate real rate of return on this investment?

Last year, you purchased a stock at a price of $73.56 a share. Over the course of the year, you received $1.89 per share in dividends and inflation averaged 2.10 percent. Today, you sold your shares for $88.69 a share. What is your approximate real rate of return on this investment?

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Which of the following can we conclude based on our observation of capital market history from 1926 to 2016? (Hint: this is the “Second Lesson” from capital market history)

Stocks A and B have the same beta of 1.0, but Stock A has an expected return of 14.0% and Stock B has an expected return of 16.0%. What do we know for sure?

Over the past 37 years, the common stock of The Flower Shoppe has produced an arithmetic average return of 13.91% percent and a geometric average return of 8.56% percent. What is the projected return on this stock for the next 5 years according to Blume’s formula?

You own the following portfolio of stocks. What is the portfolio weight of Stock C?   Stock Number of Shares Price per Share A 322 $51.55 B 376 $38.91 C 205 $29.26 D 108 $15.62    

Smathers Corp. stock has a beta of 0.93. The market risk premium is 15.0 percent and the risk-free rate is 2.2 percent annually. What is the company’s cost of equity?

What is the best way to support physical activity when the patient moves from acute care into outpatient care?

The common stock of Jensen Shipping has an expected return of 22.8 percent. The return on the market is 14.4 percent, the inflation rate is 2.1 percent, and the risk-free rate of return is 3.2 percent. What is the beta of this stock?