The stock of Business Adventures sells for $40 a share. Its likely dividend payout and end-of-year price depend on the state of the economy by the end of the year as follows: Dividend Stock Price Boom $2.00 $50 Normal economy 1.00 43 Recession 0.50 34 a. Calculate the expected holding-period return and standard deviation of the holding-period return. All three scenarios are equally likely. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) b. Calculate the expected return and standard deviation of a portfolio invested half in Business Adventures and half in Treasury bills. The return on bills is 4%. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

You have $22,000 to invest in a stock portfolio. your choices are stock x with an expected return of 11 percent and stock y with an expected return of 13 percent. if your goal is to create a portfolio with an expected return of 11.74 percent, how much money will you invest in stock x? in stock y?

Afirm's before-tax cost of debt, rd, is the interest rate that the firm must pay on debt. because interest is tax deductible, the relevant cost of debt used to calculate a firm's wacc is the cost of debt, rd (1 – t). the cost of debt is used in calculating the wacc because we are interested in maximizing the value of the firm's stock, and the stock price depends on cash flows. it is important to emphasize that the cost of debt is the interest rate on debt, not debt because our primary concern with the cost of capital is its use in capital budgeting decisions. the rate at which the firm has borrowed in the past is because we need to know the cost of capital. for these reasons, the on outstanding debt (which reflects current market conditions) is a better measure of the cost of debt than the . the on the company's -term debt is generally used to calculate the cost of debt because more often than not, the capital is being raised to fund -term projects. quantitative problem: 5 years ago, barton industries issued 25-year noncallable, semiannual bonds with a $1,600 face value and a 8% coupon, semiannual payment ($64 payment every 6 months). the bonds currently sell for $845.87. if the firm's marginal tax rate is 40%, what is the firm's after-tax cost of debt? round your answer to 2 decimal places. do not round intermediate calcu

The card shoppe needs to maintain 21 percent of its sales in net working capital. currently, the store is considering a four-year project that will increase sales from its current level of $349,000 to $408,000 the first year and to $414,000 a year for the following three years of the project. what amount should be included in the project analysis for net working capital in year 4 of the project?