1. A firm with stock trading at $15.40 expects to distribute a dividend of $0.77. The last dividend it distributed was $0.70.
(A) What is the required return on equity implied by the dividend growth model (DGM)?
(B) Assuming an expected market return of 18% and a risk-free rate of 3%, what is the beta implied by the required return on equity found above.
2. Which is the best decription of the Variance of a random variable?
A. The sum of the squared errors
B. The dispersion of the data
C. The average or expected squared deviation from the mean
D. the average difference from the mean