Find both the arithmetic growth rate and the geometric growth rate of the dividends for Davy's Crock Pot Stores. Assuming the January​ 1, 2011 price of the stock is $110.00​, determine the current required rate of return for the company​ (use the geometric growth rate to calculate the required​ return.)

What is the arithmetic growth rate of the dividends for Davy's Crock Pot Stores​? (Round to two decimal​ places.)

What is the geometric growth rate of the dividends for Davy's Crock Pot Stores​? Round to two decimal​ places.)

What is the required rate of return for Davy's Crock Pot Stores​? Round to two decimal​ places.)

What is a multinational firm? Please describe the theory of international trade that you can only consume what you can produce without trade and you can consume more than you produce with trade? What happens to the US dollar value of the UK pound if the US$/UK£ rises? The US dollar price of the euro rose from $1.15 to $1.30 - please explain using the demand and supply graph for a foreign currency and explain what is the main cause of changes in D and S.

3. The table below shows the number of hybrid cars sold (in thousands) in the US in the following years.                                                          * Source: Wikipedia

1. Find an exponential regression equation for the data. Let x = 0 represent the year 2000. Round a to two decimal places, and round b to four decimal places.

2. Describe what a and b tell you from your equation above in the context of the problem. Be very specific.

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4. The table below presents the historical P/E ratio for Apple Inc. The P/E ratio increased from 2002 to 2003, and then decreased for a few years. a. Please explain how the increase and decrease of P/E ratio reflect investor view about Apple. (2 points) b. The current P/E ratio of Apple is 33.7. If we use the past 10 years average P/E ratio (from 2010-2019) as a benchmark, is Apple currently underpriced, fairly priced or overpriced? Please explain. (3 points)

Year P/E ratio

2002 80.6

2003 109.1

2004 52.4

2005 32.5

2006 32.6

2007 38.0

2008 20.7

2009 20.1

2010 18.4

2011 13.6

2012 14.9

2013 11.9

2014 15.5

2015 11.9

2016 13.5

2017 16.6

2018 18.8

2019 18.2

, discuss how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 resulted in series of regulatory overhauls among publicly traded companies.  Have these changes been effective in improving firms' internal controls?

Modern managers in today's business world have many more issues and concerns
regarding managing business enterprises relative to before the advent of
globalization. In that vein, they must be careful that they fully and completely take
into account the global economy so that they develop and adopt correct and proper
strategies that add value to the firms they are managing. In other words, they must
develop and adopt strategies that will create and sustain positive economic profits
for their firms. These endeavors often involve keeping detailed track of, as well as
precise management of, foreign exchange rate movements and changes.

Consider the following situation. Suppose that a change in tastes occurs in the
United Kingdom (UK) such that residents in the UK are prompted to purchase more
goods and services from the U.S. In other words, UK consumers purchase more
imports from the U.S.

A.     What would be the effect on the U.S. dollar-Uk pound sterling (l.e. U.S. dollar
per pound sterling, or $/£) exchange rate as a result of this situation? Would
this exchange rate rise or fall? Explain carefully and illustrate with an
appropriately drawn diagram.

B.     Which currency has appreciated? Which currency has depreciated? Explain
carefully.

C.     How would this situation affect the sales of a firm that produces in the U.S.
but sells goods and services to UK residents? Explain carefully.

(Hint: What would happen to the price of U.S. goods and services in the
UK? What would happen to U.S. sales in the UK?)

Consider the performance of two securities, J and K over the five year period from 2000 to 2004. The annual return earned on each one of them is as provided in the table below:

Required:

Compute the following:

1. The appropriate annual average return for both securities over the 5-year holding period; assuming re-investment of all returns for respective years.

[05 Marks]

2. Assume your organization had K100 million to invest on 01st January, 2000. If 60% was invested in security J, what average return would you have earned from a portfolio comprising the two securities?

[05 Marks]

3. What average volatility would the portfolio be exposed to; assuming the correlation coefficient between returns on securities J and K is -0.852?

[05 Marks]

4. Evaluate the performance of the securities individually and the portfolio. Which investment would you advise management to make? Assume a risk-free rate of 6%.

[05 Marks]

Consider the performance of two securities, J and K over the five year period from 2000 to 2004. The annual return earned on each one of them is as provided in the table below:

Required:

Compute the following:

1. The appropriate annual average return for both securities over the 5-year holding period; assuming re-investment of all returns for respective years.

[05 Marks]

2. Assume your organization had K100 million to invest on 01st January, 2000. If 60% was invested in security J, what average return would you have earned from a portfolio comprising the two securities?

[05 Marks]

3. What average volatility would the portfolio be exposed to; assuming the correlation coefficient between returns on securities J and K is -0.852?

[05 Marks]

4. Evaluate the performance of the securities individually and the portfolio. Which investment would you advise management to make? Assume a risk-free rate of 6%.

[05 Marks]

Evaluate the EUR/USD - Euro US Dollar currency pair. Adjust the time horizon to range 2002 to-date.

a. Identify any dramatic changes and do a brief research on the internet to explain such movements.

b. In addition, do you observe an changes or trends during 2007-2014？What do you think were the causes of such changes or trends? Do a brief research on the internet to support your answers.

1. Table 3 (below) shows annual returns for the S&P 500 for the years 2000-2016:

Table 3: Annual Returns

Calculate:

1. The cumulative return over the 17 years;
2. The average annual return;
3. The standard deviation;
4. The Sharpe Ratio (assuming a risk free rate of 2.3% on average)