14. Each of two stocks, one the stock ofan electric utility company and the other the stock...

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14. Each of two stocks, one the stock ofan electric utility company and the other the stock of a gold mining company, has a beta of 0.60. Why would a security analyst be interested to know that the gold mining stock has a much larger standard deviation of the random error term (unique risk) than the electric utility stock?

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Investments

ISBN: 9788120321014

6th Edition

Authors: William F. Sharpe, Gordon J. Alexander, Jeffery V. Bailey

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