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What would make for a larger increase of the stock's variance: an increase of 1.5 in its beta or an increase of 3% in its residual standard deviation?
Comment on competition in one of the segments of the consumer electronics industry in which Apple competes. Which of the five competitive forces seem strongest? Weakest? What is your assessment of
If Congress increased the personal tax rate on interest, dividends, and capital gains but simultaneously reduced the rate on corporate income, what effect would this have on the average company's ca
If Sidman reinvest retained earnings in projects whose average return is equal to the stock's expected rate of return, what will be next year's EPS?
Anton's Coffee Shop has a return on assets of 12%. Anton's assets = $100 while Anton's owner's equity = $40 and its debt equals $60. What is Anton's return on equity?
Similar bonds without a conversion feature returned 10% at the time. The bond is convertible into stock at a price of $35. The stock is now selling for $40.
What is the value of a perpetuity with an annual payment of $100 and a discount rate of 6%?
Suppose that we back-test a VaR model using 1,000 days of data. The VaR confidence level is 99% and we observe 15 exceptions. Should we reject the model at 5% confidence level. Use Kupiec's two-tail
Currently the risk free return is 3 percent and the expected market rate of return is 10 percent. What is the expected return of the following three-stock porfolio?
A decision of a privately held company to go public
Coase Corp. has 10,000,000 outstanding shares. There are 11 directors on the firm's board. The Becker family owns 2,300,000 shares of Coase Corp. How many directors can the Becker family be assured
Sharpe Products has 1 million outstanding shares and 9 directors to be elected. Cumulonimbus Holdings owns 175,000 shares of Sharpe. How many directors can Cumulonimbus elect with cumulative voting?
1. How do you think each of the following items would affect a company's ability to attract new capital and the flotation costs involved in doing so?
When the cost of an investment come before that investment's benefits, what will be the effect of a rise in interest rates on the attractiveness of that investment to potential investors?
Which describes the annual percentage rate best?
Calculate the future value of an investment, given the following characteristics: (a) PV: $30,000, (b) NPER: 25, (c) Rate: 5%.
Historically, why have high inflation rates tended to be associated with high nominal interest rate?
Given the following annual net cash flows, determine the IRR to the nearest whole percent of a project with an initial outlay of $1,520.
Compost Science, Inc. (CSI), is in the business of converting Boston's sewage sludge into fertilizer. The business is not in itself very profitable. However, to induce CSI to remain in business,
Some corporations' debt-equity targets are expressed not as a debt ratio but as a target debt rating on the firm's outstanding bonds. What are the pros and cons of setting a target rating rather tha
1. Referring to the EAR, a key component to take into consideration is "compound interest" and this creates a major distinction between the APR and EAR. When it comes to the APR vs. EAR, does t
What is Innovative Products Company's economic value added (EVA)?
Net working capital of $131,000 will be required immediately. PUTZ has a 40 percent tax rate, and the required return on the project is 13 percent. what is npv?
A bank is offering you a savings account that will pay 2% real interest rate. If the inflation rate is 5%, how long will it take to double your money in real terms and in nominal terms? Please show
Discuss some benefits and pitfalls of global investing.