CAPM Elements	Value
Risk-free rate (rRF

)
Market risk premium (RPM

)
Happy Corp. stocks beta
Required rate of return on Happy Corp. stock

An analyst believes that inflation is going to increase by 2.40% over the next year, while the market risk premium will be unchanged. The analyst uses the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). The following graph plots the current SML.

Calculate Happy Corp.s new required return. Then, on the graph, use the rectangle symbols to plot the new SML suggested by this analysts prediction.

Happy Corp.s new required rate of return is .

Based on the graph, complete the table that follows: 20.0 16.0 O 12.0 Slope: 4.50 Y-Intercept: 5 REQUIRED RATE OF RETURN (Percent) 1 4.0 0 0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 RISK (Beta)