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> You found the following stock quote for Gigantus Corporation in today’s newspaper. What was the stock selling for on January 1? Use the following bond quote for Problems 9 and 10: Data from Problems 9: What is the yield to maturity

> The contract size for platinum futures is 50 troy ounces. Suppose you need 300 troy ounces of platinum and the current futures price is $2,025 per ounce. How many contracts do you need to purchase? How much will you pay for your platinum? What is your d

> You purchase 3,000 bonds with a par value of $1,000 for $980 each. The bonds have a coupon rate of 7.2 percent paid semiannually and mature in 10 years. How much will you receive on the next coupon date? How much will you receive when the bonds mature?

> If the market risk premium decreases by 1 percent while the risk-free rate remains the same, the security market line: a. Becomes steeper. b. Becomes flatter. c. Parallel shifts downward.

> In Problem 1, what is the capital gains yield? The dividend yield? What is the total rate of return on the investment? Problem 1: Suppose you bought 100 shares of stock at an initial price of $37 per share. The stock paid a dividend of $0.28 per share

> In Problem 3, if the company has a P/E ratio of 21.5, what is the earnings per share (EPS) for the company? Data from Problem 3: You find a stock selling for $74.20 that has a dividend yield of 3.4 percent. What was the last quarterly dividend paid?

> You find a stock selling for $74.20 that has a dividend yield of 3.4 percent. What was the last quarterly dividend paid?

> In Problem 1, assume the company has 100 million shares of stock outstanding and a P/E ratio of 15. What was net income for the most recent four quarters? Data from Problem 1: You found the following stock quote for DRK Enterprises, Inc., at your favor

> If you currently own 15 of the bonds, how much will you receive on the next coupon date? Use the following corn futures quotes for Problems 11–13: Data from Problems 11: How many of the March contracts are currently open? How many

> You short sold 1,000 shares of stock at a price of $36 and an initial margin of 55 percent. If the maintenance margin is 35 percent, at what share price will you receive a margin call? What is your account equity at this stock price?

> The stock of Flop Industries is trading at $48. You feel the stock price will decline, so you short 1,000 shares at an initial margin of 60 percent. If the maintenance margin is 30 percent, at what share price will you receive a margin call?

> You decide to buy 1,200 shares of stock at a price of $34 and an initial margin of 55 percent. What is the maximum percentage decline in the stock before you will receive a margin call if the maintenance margin is 35 percent?

> You have $22,000 and decide to invest on margin. If the initial margin requirement is 55 percent, what is the maximum dollar purchase you can make?

> You purchase 275 shares of 2nd Chance Co. stock on margin at a price of $53. Your broker requires you to deposit $8,000. What is your margin loan amount? What is the initial margin requirement?

> The beta of stock B is closest to: a. 0.51 b. 1.07 c. 1.46

> You purchased a stock at the end of the prior year at a price of $73. At the end of this year, the stock pays a dividend of $1.20 and you sell the stock for $78. What is your return for the year? Now suppose that dividends are taxed at 15 percent and l

> Carson Corporation stock sells for $17 per share, and you’ve decided to purchase as many shares as you possibly can. You have $31,000 available to invest. What is the maximum number of shares you can buy if the initial margin is 60 percent?

> A stock has a current share price of $49.24 and a dividend yield of 1.5 percent. If the risk-free rate is 5.4 percent, what is the futures price if the maturity is four months?

> A non-dividend-paying stock has a current share price of $42.60 and a futures price of $42.95. If the maturity of the futures contract is four months, what is the risk-free rate?

> A non-dividend-paying stock has a futures contract with a price of $94.90 and a maturity of two months. If the risk-free rate is 4.5 percent, what is the price of the stock?

> A non-dividend-paying stock is currently priced at $16.40. The risk-free rate is 3 percent and a futures contract on the stock matures in six months. What price should the futures be?

> You are short 30 March 2016 five-year Treasury note futures contracts. Calculate your profit or loss from this trading day using Figure 14.1. Figure 14.1: Futures Contracts|WSJ.com/commoditles Metal & Petroleum Futures Contract Оpen Contract Open I

> You are short 15 March 2016 corn futures contracts. Calculate your dollar profit or loss from this trading day using Figure 14.1. Figure 14.1: Futures Contracts|WSJ.com/commoditles Metal & Petroleum Futures Contract Оpen Contract Open Interest Оpe

> You are long 20 November 2015 soybean futures contracts. Calculate your dollar profit or loss from this trading day using Figure 14.1. Figure 14.1: Futures Contracts|WSJ.com/commoditles Metal & Petroleum Futures Contract Оpen Contract Open Interest

> A stock futures contract is priced at $27.18. The stock has a dividend yield of 1.25 percent and the risk-free rate is 2.5 percent. If the futures contract matures in six months, what is the current stock price?

> Based on the stock and market data provided above, which of the following data regarding stock A is most accurate? Required Return Recommendation а. 16.1% Sell b. 16.1% Buy C. 14.15% Sell

> Your portfolio allocates equal funds to the DW Co. and Woodpecker, Inc., stocks referred to in Problems 7 and 8. The return correlation between DW Co. and Woodpecker, Inc., is zero. What is the smallest expected loss for your portfolio in the coming mont

> Woodpecker, Inc., stock has an annual return mean and standard deviation of 18 percent and 44 percent, respectively. What is the smallest expected loss in the coming month with a probability of 2.5 percent?

> DW Co. stock has an annual return mean and standard deviation of 12 percent and 30 percent, respectively. What is the smallest expected loss in the coming year with a probability of 5 percent?

> The Layton Growth Fund has an alpha of 2.1 percent. You have determined that Layton’s information ratio is 0.5. What must Layton’s tracking error be relative to its benchmark?

> In Problem 3, assume that the correlation of returns on portfolio Y to returns on the market is .75. What is the percentage of portfolio Y’s return that is driven by the market? Data from Problem 3: You are given the following informa

> Assume that the tracking error of portfolio X in Problem 3 is 9.2 percent. What is the information ratio for portfolio X? Data from Problem 3: You are given the following information concerning three portfolios, the market portfolio, and the risk-free

> You are given the following information concerning three portfolios, the market portfolio, and the risk-free asset: What are the Sharpe ratio, Treynor ratio, and Jensen’s alpha for each portfolio? Portfolio R, Pp 12% 29% 1.25 Y

> You find the monthly standard deviation of a stock is 8.60 percent. What is the annual standard deviation of the stock?

> What is the formula for the Sharpe ratio for a stock and bond portfolio with a zero correlation between stock and bond returns?

> You find a particular stock has an annual standard deviation of 54 percent. What is the standard deviation for a two-month period?

> Which of the following is closest to the expected return of a portfolio that consists of 90 percent of the original portfolio, 5 percent of the Hi Rise (HR) Real Estate Fund, and 5 percent of the Beta Naught (BN) Fund? a. 9.0 percent b. 10.4 percent c. 9

> What is the estimate of Country Point’s free cash flow to the firm (FCFF) in 2012? a. 25 b. 16 c. 11

> You found the following stock quote for DRK Enterprises, Inc., at your favorite website. You also found that the stock paid an annual dividend of $0.75, which resulted in a dividend yield of 1.30 percent. What was the closing price for this stock yesterd

> Suppose you bought 100 shares of stock at an initial price of $37 per share. The stock paid a dividend of $0.28 per share during the following year, and the share price at the end of the year was $41. Compute your total dollar return on this investment.

> Referring to Figure 14.1, what is the total open interest on the December 2015 Japanese yen contract? Does it represent long positions, short positions, or both? Based on the settle price on the contract, what is the dollar value of the open interest? F

> Using Figure 14.1, answer the following questions: a. What was the settle price for March 2016 coffee futures on this date? What is the total dollar value of this contract at the close of trading for the day? b. What was the settle price for December 201

> A stock has a beta of 0.9 and an expected return of 9 percent. A risk-free asset currently earns 4 percent. a. What is the expected return on a portfolio that is equally invested in the two assets? b. If a portfolio of the two assets has a beta of 0.5, w

> Consider the following information: a. Your portfolio is invested 25 percent each in A and C and 50 percent in B. What is the expected return of the portfolio? b. What is the variance of this portfolio? The standard deviation? Rate of Return If S

> Based on the following information, calculate the expected return and standard deviation for the two stocks. Rate of Return If State Occurs State of Probablity of State of Economy Economy Stock A Stock B Recession .3 0.04 -0.20 Normal .4 0.09 0.13

> Calculate the expected return on a portfolio of 55 percent Roll and 45 percent Ross by filling in the following table: Data for Question 7: (1) (4) (2) Probablity of State of Economy (3) Portfollo Return State of Product Economy If State Occurs (2

> Calculate the standard deviations for Roll and Ross by filling in the following table (verify your answer using returns expressed in percentages as well as decimals): Data for Question 5: (1) (2) Probablity of State of Economy (3) (4) Squared Ret

> A study analyzed the behavior of the stock prices of firms that had lost antitrust cases. Included in the diagram are all firms that lost the initial court decision, even if the decision was later overturned on appeal. The event at time 0 is the initial,

> An important difference between a long position in stock and a short position concerns the potential gains and losses. Suppose a stock sells for $18 per share and you buy 500 shares. What are your potential gains and losses?

> The following diagram shows the cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) for oil exploration companies announcing oil discoveries over a 30-year period. Month 0 in the diagram is the announcement month. Assume that no other information is received and the stock

> On November 14, Thoro good Enterprises announced that the public and acrimonious battle with its current CEO had been resolved. Under the terms of the deal, the CEO would step down from his position immediately. In exchange, he was given a generous sever

> Suppose you calculated the total market value of the stocks in an index over a five-year period: Year 1: 4,387 million Year 2: 4,671 million Year 3: 5,032 million Year 4: 4,820 million Year 5: 5,369 million Suppose you wanted the index to start at 1,000.

> You purchase 10 call option contracts with a strike price of $75 and a premium of $3.85. If the stock price at expiration is $82, what is your dollar profit? What if the stock price is $72?

> Using the information from Problem 5, calculate the variances and the standard deviations for Cherry and Straw.

> Calculate the index return for the information in Problem 4 using a value-weighted index.

> To an investor, what is the difference between using an advisor and using a broker?

> What is Blume’s formula? When would you want to use it in practice?

> What is the difference between arithmetic and geometric returns? Suppose you have invested in a stock for the last 10 years. Which number is more important to you, the arithmetic or geometric return?

> Explain how volume is quoted for stocks, corporate bonds, futures, and options.

> Why is preferred stock “preferred”?

> What does it mean to sell a security short? Why might you do it?

> What does it mean to purchase a security on margin? Why might you do it?

> Program traders closely monitor relative futures and cash market prices, but program trades are not actually made on a fully mechanical basis. What are some of the complications that might make program trading using, for example, the S&P 500 contract mor

> Is it true that a futures contract represents a zero-sum game, meaning that the only way for a buyer to win is for a seller to lose, and vice versa?

> An American electronics firm imports its completed circuit boards from Japan. The company signed a contract today to pay for the boards in Japanese yen upon delivery in four months; the price per board in yen was fixed in the contract. Should the importe

> What are the similarities and differences in taking the short side of a futures contract and short selling a stock? How do the cash flows differ?

> Using Figure 14.1, answer the following questions: a. How many exchanges trade wheat futures contracts? b. If you have a position in 10 gold futures, what quantity of gold underlies your position? c. If you are short 20 oat futures contracts and you opt

> What is the difference between the Sharpe ratio and the Sortino ratio?

> Suppose that two investments have the same alpha. What things might you consider to help you determine which investment to choose?

> Which of the following represents the best investment advice? a. Avoid Texas because its expected return is lower than its required return. b. Buy Montana and Texas because their required returns are lower than their expected returns. c. Buy Montana beca

> Explain what it means for all assets to have the same reward-to-risk ratio. How can you increase your return if this holds true? Why would we expect that all assets have the same reward-to-risk ratio in liquid, well-functioning markets?

> Suppose you identify a situation in which one security is overvalued relative to another. How would you go about exploiting this opportunity? Does it matter if the two securities are both overvalued relative to some third security? Are your profits certa

> Is it possible that a risky asset could have a beta of zero? Explain. Based on the CAPM, what is the expected return on such an asset? Is it possible that a risky asset could have a negative beta? What does the CAPM predict about the expected return on s

> As indicated by examples in this chapter, earnings announcements by companies are closely followed by, and frequently result in, share price revisions. Two issues should come to mind. First, earnings announcements concern past periods. If the market valu

> Indicate whether the following events might cause stocks in general to change price, and whether they might cause Big Widget Corp.’s stock to change price. a. The government announces that inflation unexpectedly jumped by 2 percent last month. b. Big Wid

> Suppose the government announces that, based on a just-completed survey, the growth rate in the economy is likely to be 2 percent in the coming year, compared to 5 percent for the year just completed. Will security prices increase, decrease, or stay the

> Dudley Trudy, CFA, recently met with one of his clients. Trudy typically invests in a master list of 30 securities drawn from several industries. After the meeting concluded, the client made the following statement: “I trust your stock-picking ability an

> In broad terms, why is some risk diversifiable? Why are some risks non diversifiable? Does it follow that an investor can control the level of unsystematic risk in a portfolio but not the level of systematic risk?

> Why is the minimum variance portfolio important in regard to the Markowitz efficient frontier?

> Why should younger investors be willing to hold a larger amount of equity in their portfolios?

> Look at Table 1.1 and Figures 1.5 and 1.6. When were T-bill rates at their highest? Why do you think they were so high during this period? Table 1.1: Figures 1.5: Figures 1.6: TABLE 11 Year-to-Year Total Returns: 1926-2015 LONG-TERM LONG-TE

> (a) What is the relationship between the price of a bond and its YTM? (b) Explain why some bonds sell at a premium to par value, and other bonds sell at a discount. What do you know about the relationship between the coupon rate and the YTM for premium b

> Suppose you buy a 9 percent coupon, 15-year bond today when it’s first issued. If interest rates suddenly rise to 15 percent, what happens to the value of your bond? Why?

> Is the yield to maturity (YTM) on a bond the same thing as the required return? Is YTM the same thing as the coupon rate? Suppose that today a 10 percent coupon bond sells at par. Two years from now, the required return on the same bond is 8 percent. Wha

> What is the difference between a bond’s promised yield and its realized yield? Which is more relevant? When we calculate a bond’s yield to maturity, which of these are we calculating?

> For a premium bond, which is greater, the coupon rate or the yield to maturity? Why? For a discount bond? Why?

> In the United States, what is the normal face value for corporate and U.S. government bonds? How are coupons calculated? How often are coupons paid?

> For callable bonds, the financial press generally reports either the yield to maturity or the yield to call. Often yield to call is reported for premium bonds, and yield to maturity is reported for discount bonds. What is the reasoning behind this conven

> When we observe interest rates in the financial press, do we see nominal or real rates? Which are more relevant to investors?

> Compare and contrast the Fed funds rate and the discount rate. Which do you think is more volatile? Which market do you think is more active? Why?

> Discuss how each of the following theories for the term structure of interest rates could account for a downward-sloping term structure of interest rates: a. Pure expectations b. Maturity preference c. Market segmentation

> When combined with Beta Naught in a 50/50 portfolio, which of the other three funds will produce a portfolio that has the lowest standard deviation? a. New Horizon only. b. Quality Commodity only. c. Either Hi Rise or Quality Commodity.

> Based on the history of interest rates, what is the range of short-term rates that has occurred in the United States? The range of long-term rates? What is a typical value for each?

> In the chapter, we discussed the 3Com/Palm and Royal Dutch/ Shell mis pricings. Which of the limits to arbitrage would least likely be the main reason for these mis pricings? Explain.

> Why do you think the industrial and transportation averages are the two that underlie Dow theory?

> What is noise trader risk? How can noise trader risk lead to market inefficiencies?

> How can frame dependence lead to irrational investment decisions?

> How do prospect theory and the concept of a rational investor differ?

> Gaps are another technical analysis tool used in conjunction with open high-low-close charts. A gap occurs when either the low price for a particular day is higher than the high price from the previous day, or the high price for a day is lower than the l

> A frequent argument against the usefulness of technical analysis is that trading on a pattern has the effect of destroying the pattern. Explain what this means.