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17. You recently purchased a stock that is expected to earn 12.6 percent in a booming economy and 5.2 percent in a recessionary economy. Each economic state is equally likely to occur. What is your expected rate of return on this stock?
Select one:
a. 5.2 percent
b. 8.9 percent
c. 12.6 percent
d. 7.4 percent
Q-17) Expected return in Booming economy = 12.6%
Expected return in recessionary economy = 5.2%
As each economic state is equally likely to occur so that weight of each of them is 0.50:0.50.
Expected Rate of Return on this stock = (Expected return in Booming economy)(Probability of Occurance) + (Expected return in recessionary economy)(Probability of Occurance)
=(12.6%)(0.50) + (5.2%)(0.50)
= 8.9%
So, expected rate of return on this stock is 8.9%
Option B
Q-18) Ans- Option D. Underpriced, in part, to counteract the winner's curse