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The following table shows the return achieved by four individual stocks over four consecutive periods: Which of the four stocks in the table above has the highest expected return? Scribe Plc Leaf Plc Press Plc Bind Plc The following table shows the return achieved by four individual stocks over four consecutive periods: Which of the four stocks in the table above has the lowest standard deviation of returns? Scribe Plc Leaf Plc Press Plc Bind Pic The following table shows the return achieved by four individual stocks over four consecutive periods: What is the correlation between returns for Leaf Plc and Press Plc? Ensure that all figures used are rounded to no less than 3 decimal places. Please do not enter any special characters in your answer other than, if applicable, a decimal point (e.g. no or . symbols) symbols). Hint: Correlation coefficients are bounded between 1 and 1. The following table shows the return achieved by four individual stocks over four consecutive periods: What is the expected return for an equally-weighted portfolio containing Scribe Plc, Leaf Plc, Press Plc, and Bind Plc? Ensure that all figures used are rounded to no less than 3 decimal places. Please do not enter any special characters in your answer other than, if applicable, a decimal point (e.g. no or. symbols). Please provide your answer in decimals, e.g. an answer of 6.2% should be entered as 0.062. The following table shows the return achieved by four individual stocks over four consecutive periods: What is the standard deviation of returns for a portfolio comprising 40% Leaf Plc and 60% Press Plc? Ensure that all figures used are rounded to no less than 3 decimal places. Please do not enter any special characters in your answer other than, if applicable, a decimal point (e.g. no or. symbols). Please provide your answer in decimals, e.g. an answer of 6.2% should be entered as 0.062. Which of the following statements is/are correct? (1) An increase in the cost of equity leads to a fall in the current share price. (2) Investors faced with increased risk will expect increased return as compensation. (3) The cost of equity is usually lower than the cost of debt. (1) and ( 2 ) only. (2) and (3) only. (2) only. (1). (2) and (3). What is the required return on a stock which has a beta of 1.2 if the risk free rate is 2% and the return on the market portfolio is 7% ? Please provide your answer to this question ONLY in full-percents, e.g. an answer of 6.2% should be entered as 6.2. This is due to an error in the set-up of the test which I am unable to correct now that the test is live. Please do not enter any special characters in your answer other than, if applicable, a decimal point (e.g. no or, symbols). Which of the following is most likely to lead to REDUCED shareholder wealth? Announcement of a higher than expected dividend. A decision to invest in a positive NPV project. A decrease in the weighted-average cost of capital. Adjusting leverage away from the optimal capital structure. A firm's common stock is valued at 60 millions and has a beta of 1.5. The firm's (riskfree) debt is valued at 100 millions and has a beta of zero. The risk free rate is 4% and the return on the market portfolio is 10%. Ignore taxes. What is the firm's weightedaverage cost of capital? Ensure that all figures used are rounded to no less than 3 decimal places. Please do not enter any special characters in your answer other than, if applicable, a decimal point (e.g. no or symbols). Please provide your answer in decimals, e.g. an answer of 6.2% should be entered as 0.062. Which of the following can be conducted as an alternative to a one-off dividend? A share repurchase. An Initial Public Offering (IPO). Arights-issue. A private placement. A firm issues 4% convertible loan notes that are redeemable in 4 years' time at a pernote nominal value of 100. Each loan note could alternatively be converted into 15 ordinary shares in 4 years' time. The cost of debt is 6%. The current share price is 6.20 per share, and future share price growth is expected to be 4% per year. What is the current market value of a convertible loan note to two decimal places? Ensure that all figures used are rounded to no less than 3 decimal places. Please do not enter any special characters in your answer other than, if applicable, a decimal point (e.g. no or. symbols), Which of the following initiatives attempts to reduce the funding gap faced by SMEs? Crowdfunding. Govemment grants or equity investment. Supply Chain Finance, e.g., reverse factoring. Which one of the following statements is correct? Modigliani and Miller argued that dividend decisions are more important than capital structure decisions. Dividend policy is usually set by shareholders during the Annual General Meeting of a company. A share repurchase is an alternative to a dividend as a means for redistributing cash to the equity market. Shareholders typically view dividend increases as a signal of financial distress