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1. Assume the economy can either be booming or in recession. The probability of a boom is 65%. If the economy is booming, a certain stock has an expected return of 20%. If the economy is in recession, the expected return of that same stock is 4%. What is the long term expected return of the stock?
2. Over the last year you observe that a certain company had a stock return of 24%, while the market had a return of 12%, and the risk-free rate was 2%. What would be your estimate of the firm's beta?
3. Assume a corporation is expecting the following cash flows in the future: $-4 million in year 1, $8 million in year 2, $21 million in year 3. After year 3, the cash flows are expected to grow at a rate of 4% forever. The discount rate is 12%, the firm has debt totaling $39 million, and 10 million shares outstanding. What should be the price per share for this company?
4. Stock A has a beta of 1.4, and stock B has a beta of 1.2. You invest 0.8% of your capital in stock A, and the rest in stock B. What is the beta of the resulting portfolio?
5. As with most bonds, consider a bond with a face value of $1,000. The bond's maturity is 19 years, the coupon rate is 5% paid semiannually, and the discount rate is 17%.
What is the estimated value of this bond today?
6. As with most bonds, consider a bond with a face value of $1,000. The bond's maturity is 16 years, the coupon rate is 8% paid annually, and the discount rate is 13%.
What is this bond's coupon payment?
1)Probability of recession = 100-65= 35%
long term expected return of the stock =[Er of boom* probabiliy of boom]+[Er of recession*Probability of recession]
=[20*.65]+[4*.35]
= 13+1.4
= 14.4%
2)Return on stock =Rf+ [beta*(Return on market -Rf)]
24= 2+ [B(12-2)]
24-2 = 10 B
B(beta) = 22/10 = 2.2
3)Terminal value at year3 =CF3(1+g)/(Rs-g)
= 21(1+.04)/(.12-.04)
= 21 *1.04 / .08
= 273
Value of firm =[PVF12%,1*CF1]+[PVF12%,2*CF2]+.....[PVF12%,3*TV]
=[.89286*-4]+[.79719*8]+[.71178*21]+[.71178*273]
= -3.5714+ 6.3775+ 14.9474+ 194.3159
= 212.0694
Value of equity = 212.0694 - 39
= 173.0694
price per share= value of equity /shares outstanding
= 173.0694/10
= $ 17.30694 or 17.31 per share
4)Beta of portfolio =[Beta of a*Weight a]+[Bb*Wb]
= [1.4*.8]+[1.2*.20]
= 1.12+ .24
= 1.36
**weight of B = 1-.80 = .20