Integrated Potato Chips (IPC) does not pay a dividend. Its current stock price is $150 and there is an equal probability that the return over the coming year will be –10%, +20%, or +50%.

a. What is the expected price at year-end?

b. If the probabilities of future returns remain unchanged and you could observe the returns of IPC over a large number of years, what would be the (arithmetic) average return?

c. If you were to discount IPC’s expected price at year-end from part (a) by this number, would you underestimate, overestimate, or correctly estimate the stock’s present value?

d. If you could observe the returns of IPC over a large number of years, what would be the compound (geometric average) rate of return?

e. If you were to discount IPC’s expected price at year-end from part (a) by this number, would you underestimate, overestimate, or correctly estimate the stock’s present value?