Question 1 (1 point)

Which of the following features is generally NOT associated with preferred stock?

Question 1 options:

Convertability to common stock.

Voting rights.

Preference in dividends.

Callability at the option of the corporation.

Question 2 (1 point)

Which of the following is generally NOT a right granted to owners of preferred shares?

Question 2 options:

Callability.

Preference with regards to receiving dividends.

Variable dividend amounts.

Convertibility to common shares.

Question 3 (1 point)

Which of the following statements about a preferred stockholder's rights to the company's income is NOT true?

Question 3 options:

Dividends to common and preferred shareholders are paid at the same time.

A preferred stock's par value represents the original investment when the shares were issued.

When a business is liquidated, preferred shareholders receive funds equal to the stock's par value.

The price of both common and preferred shares are subject to market determinants.

Question 4 (1 point)

A company goes bankrupt and its assets are to be divided between its shareholders and debtholders. Which of the following, from highest priority to lowest, is the correct order of how the company's assets should be divided?

Question 4 options:

Preferred shareholders, common shareholders, bondholders.

Preferred shareholders, bondholders, common shareholders.

Bondholders, preferred shareholders, common shareholders.

Bondholders, common shareholders, preferred shareholders.

Question 5 (1 point)

A company a constant growth rate of 3%. The company's risk adjusted discount rate is 5%. The company has a $2 dividend. What is the per share value of the stock?

Question 5 options:

$103

$105

$52.50

$51.50

Question 6 (1 point)

A company has cost of equity of 8% and a dividend growth rate of 3%. Its dividends for next year is $2.20 per share. What should the stock's price be?

Question 6 options:

$4.40

$44.00

$0.22

$27.00

Question 7 (1 point)

An investment portfolio has a 30% chance of earning $125,000 in a year, a 40% chance of earning $50,000, a 15% chance of earning nothing and 15% chance of losing $20,000. What is its expected return?

Question 7 options:

$38,750

$50,000

$62.000

$54,500

Question 8 (1 point)

A portfolio has $70,000 of bonds and $30,000 of stock. The bonds are 80% likely to have a 10% return and 20% likely to have a 0% return. The stock is 50% likely to have a 20% return and 50% likely to have a 10% loss. What is the expected return?

Question 8 options:

13%

2.9%

5.9%

7.1%

Question 9 (1 point)

What factors should be considered when weighting an investment portfolio?

Question 9 options:

The investor's risk tolerance.

All of these answers.

The specific risks of the individual securities.

The time frame of the investment.

Question 10 (1 point)

A company issues a bond with the provision that it may pay off the debt early. This bond is subject to which type of risk?

Question 10 options:

Model risk.

All of these answers.

Prepayment risk.

Interest rate risk.

Question 11 (1 point)

Using the Value at Risk methodology, an investment advisor says that she is 90% sure that her investment portfolio will not lose more than $250,000 in a given day. Based on that description, which of the following statements is true?

Question 11 options:

Investors should expect to see losses 1 out of every 10 days.

All of these answers.

The portfolio will lose more than $250,000 every month.

t is 90% sure that the portfolio will not earn more than $250,000 in a given day.

Question 12 (1 point)

A portfolio is composed of 30% stock, 20% bonds, and 50% mutual funds. The stock is expected to have a 10% return, the bonds a 5% return and the mutual funds a 7% return. What is the expected return of the portfolio?

Question 12 options:

8.1%

7%

7.3%

7.5%

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