A) The required rate of return for an average stock will increase by an amount equal to the increase in the market risk premium.
B) The required rate of return will decline for stocks whose betas are less than 1.0.
C) The required rate of return on the market, rM, will not change as a result of these changes.
D) The required rate of return for each individual stock in the market will increase by an amount equal to the increase in the market risk premium.
E) The required rate of return on a riskless bond will decline.
G) A) and C)
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A) The required return of all stocks will remain unchanged since there was no change in their betas.
B) The required return on Stock A will increase by less than the increase in the market risk premium, while the required return on Stock C will increase by more than the increase in the market risk premium.
C) The required return on the average stock will remain unchanged, but the returns of riskier stocks (such as Stock C) will increase while the returns of safer stocks (such as Stock A) will decrease.
D) The required returns on all three stocks will increase by the amount of the increase in the market risk premium.
E) The required return on the average stock will remain unchanged, but the returns on riskier stocks (such as Stock C) will decrease while the returns on safer stocks (such as Stock A) will increase.
G) C) and E)
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A) 0.67
B) 0.73
C) 0.81
D) 0.89
E) 0.98
G) A) and D)
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A) 10.36%
B) 10.62%
C) 10.88%
D) 11.15%
E) 11.43%
G) C) and E)
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A) A stock's beta is less relevant as a measure of risk to an investor with a well-diversified portfolio than to an investor who holds only that one stock.
B) If an investor buys enough stocks, he or she can, through diversification, eliminate all of the diversifiable risk inherent in owning stocks. Therefore, if a portfolio contained all publicly traded stocks, it would be essentially riskless.
C) The required return on a firm's common stock is, in theory, determined solely by its market risk. If the market risk is known, and if that risk is expected to remain constant, then no other information is required to specify the firm's required return.
D) Portfolio diversification reduces the variability of returns (as measured by the standard deviation) of each individual stock held in a portfolio.
E) A security's beta measures its non-diversifiable, or market, risk relative to that of an average stock.
G) B) and C)
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B) False
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A) If you add enough randomly selected stocks to a portfolio, you can completely eliminate all of the market risk from the portfolio.
B) If you were restricted to investing in publicly traded common stocks, yet you wanted to minimize the riskiness of your portfolio as measured by its beta, then according to the CAPM theory you should invest an equal amount of money in each stock in the market. That is, if there were 10,000 traded stocks in the world, the least risky possible portfolio would include some shares of each one.
C) If you formed a portfolio that consisted of all stocks with betas less than 1.0, which is about half of all stocks, the portfolio would itself have a beta coefficient that is equal to the weighted average beta of the stocks in the portfolio, and that portfolio would have less risk than a portfolio that consisted of all stocks in the market.
D) Market risk can be eliminated by forming a large portfolio, and if some Treasury bonds are held in the portfolio, the portfolio can be made to be completely riskless.
E) A portfolio that consists of all stocks in the market would have a required return that is equal to the riskless rate.
G) B) and C)
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A) Company X has more diversifiable risk than Company Y.
B) Company X has a lower coefficient of variation than Company Y.
C) Company X has less market risk than Company Y.
D) Company X's returns will be negative when Y's returns are positive.
E) Company X's stock is a better buy than Company Y's stock.
G) A) and D)
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A) If a company's beta doubles, then its required rate of return will also double.
B) Other things held constant, if investors suddenly become convinced that there will be deflation in the economy, then the required returns on all stocks should increase.
C) If a company's beta were cut in half, then its required rate of return would also be halved.
D) If the risk-free rate rises by 0.5% but the market risk premium declines by that same amount, then the required rates of return on stocks with betas less than 1.0 will decline while returns on stocks with betas above 1.0 will increase.
E) If the risk-free rate rises by 0.5% but the market risk premium declines by that same amount, then the required rate of return on an average stock will remain unchanged, but required returns on stocks with betas less than 1.0 will rise.
G) B) and E)
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A) Portfolio P has a beta that is greater than 1.2.
B) Portfolio P has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.
C) Portfolio P has an expected return that is less than 12%.
D) Portfolio P has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.
E) Portfolio P has a beta that is less than 1.2.
G) C) and D)
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B) False
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A) Adding more such stocks will reduce the portfolio's unsystematic, or diversifiable, risk.
B) Adding more such stocks will increase the portfolio's expected rate of return.
C) Adding more such stocks will reduce the portfolio's beta coefficient and thus its systematic risk.
D) Adding more such stocks will have no effect on the portfolio's risk.
E) Adding more such stocks will reduce the portfolio's market risk but not its unsystematic risk.
G) A) and B)
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