• Your investment club has only two stocks in its portfolio; $35,000 is invested in a stock with a beta of 0.4, and $45,000 is invested in a stock with a beta of 1.3. What is the portfolio's beta? Round your answer to two decimal places.
• AA Industries's stock has a beta of 1.9. The risk-free rate is 6%, and the expected return on the market is 11%. What is the required rate of return on AA's stock? Round your answer to two decimal places.

Assume that the risk-free rate is 4% and that the market risk premium is 4%.

What is the required rate of return on a stock with a beta of 1.2? Round your answer to two decimal places. %

What is the required rate of return on a stock with a beta of 0.5? Round your answer to two decimal places. %

What is the required return on the market? Round your answer to two decimal places. %

• Suppose you manage a $4.455 million fund that consists of four stocks with the following investments:

Stock	Investment	Beta
A	$420,000		1.50
B	325,000		-0.50
C	1,260,000		1.25
D	2,450,000		0.75

Thress Industries just paid a dividend of $2.25 a share (i.e., D₀ = $2.25). The dividend is expected to grow 5% a year for the next 3 years and then 12% a year thereafter. What is the expected dividend per share for each of the next 5 years? Round your answers to the nearest cent.

D₁ = $

D₂ = $

D₃ = $

D₄ = $

D₅ = $

Boehm Incorporated is expected to pay a $3.60 per share dividend at the end of this year (i.e., D₁ = $3.60). The dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 7% a year. The required rate of return on the stock, r_s, is 17%. What is the value per share of Boehm's stock? Round your answer to the nearest cent.Nick's Enchiladas Incorporated has preferred stock outstanding that pays a dividend of $3 at the end of each year. The preferred sells for $30 a share. What is the stock's required rate of return (assume the market is in equilibrium with the required return equal to the expected return)? Round the answer to two decimal places.A company currently pays a dividend of $1 per share (D₀ = $1). It is estimated that the company's dividend will grow at a rate of 17% per year for the next 2 years, then at a constant rate of 6% thereafter. The company's stock has a beta of 1.6, the risk-free rate is 6%, and the market risk premium is 5%. What is your estimate of the stock's current price? Round your answer to the nearest centCurrent and projected free cash flows for Radell Global Operations are shown below.Crisp Cookware's common stock is expected to pay a dividend of $2 a share at the end of this year (D₁ = $2.00); its beta is 0.90; the risk-free rate is 5.2%; and the market risk premium is 6%. The dividend is expected to grow at some constant rate g, and the stock currently sells for $25 a share. Assuming the market is in equilibrium, what does the market believe will be the stock's price at the end of 3 years (i.e., what is )? Do not round intermediate steps. Round your answer to the nearest cent.

What is the required rate of return on a preferred stock with a $50 par value, a stated dividend of 10% of par, and a current market price of (a) $51, (b) $83, (c) $119, and (d) $148 (assume the market is in equilibrium with the required return equal to the expected return)? Round the answers to two decimal places.

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