P7-9 1. 2. 3. Company A X BV r X $ BV r Calculate each firm's AE each year from 2021 to 2025 Company A 2021 2022 2021 66,920 $ 478,000 0.152 Normal earnings AE 2022 79,632 $ 504,000 0.167 2023 83,314 $ 541,000 0.159 2023 Which firm was better managed over the 2021-2025 period? Why? 2024 89,920 $ 562,000 0.172 2024 Which firm is likely to be the better stock investment in 2026 and beyond? Why? 2025 92,690 598,000 0.166 2025 Company A X BV r Company A X BV r 2023 2024 2025 2021 2022 $192,940 $176,341 $227,700 $ 198,900 $ 282,964 877,000 943,000 989,999 1,020,000 1,199,000 0.179 0.175 0.188 0.183 0.186 Normal earnings AE 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 The return investors earn from a stock depends on the difference between what must paid to buy the stock-it's cost or current market price-and what it will ultimately be worth at the time it is sold-it's value, expressed in current dollars. In an efficient market, the current price ("cost") of each stock is equal to what the stock is worth today. Exceptional investment returns are earned only if the stock is somehow mispriced currently. How do these notions apply to company A and B? Company B has clearly outperformed Company A during the years shown. Let's assume that this favorable performance difference is expected to continue into the future. The performance differences between A and B are likely to be already reflected in the current market prices of each company's stock: Company A will appear cheap precisely because it underperforms, whereas Company B will have a high market price because it outperforms. Investors who purchase shares in B will, if the stock is correctly priced by the market, simply earn a normal return, given the degree of risk they are bearing. But the same holds true for investors who purchase shares in A. If the market is efficient, neither stock will be an exceptional investment because the performance differential has already been incorporated in the current market price of each company's shares

2. Which firm wai better managed over the 20212025 peried Why? 3. Which firm is tikely to be the better stock invedment in 2026 and beyond why? ahewn: Le's awume that this fevorable performance diflerence is expested to continve into the futurk. De performunce differences between A and 8 are likaly to be aiready refect os in the hain incorparated in the current market price of each company's hares