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Partridge Plastic's stock has an estimated beta of 1.2, and its required rate of return is 10.1 percent. Cleaver Motors' stock has a beta of 1.3, and the risk - free rate is 4.7 percent. What is the required rate of return on Cleaver Motors' stock? [HINT: First, use Partridge’s information to find the Market Risk Premium. Then use that MRP to figure the required rate of return on Cleaver. Express your answer as a decimal, with at least four digits to the right of the decimal! (0.1234)]
Required return=risk free rate+beta*(market rate-risk free rate)
Partridge Plastic's stock:
10.1=4.7+1.2*(Market rate-4.7)
(10.1-4.7)=1.2*(Market rate-4.7)
Market rate=(10.1-4.7)/1.2+4.7
=9.2%
Hence required return for Cleaver Motors' stock=4.7+(9.2-4.7)*1.3
=0.1055