You Bought a Stock with a Beta of 1

question 19

Essay

You bought a stock with a beta of 1.4 and earned a return of 8.3%. Did you outperform the market if, during the same period, the market rose by 7.4% and you could have earned 5.4% by investing in a Treasury bill?​

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Definitions:

Security

A financial instrument that represents ownership (stocks), a creditor relationship (bonds), or rights to ownership (options) that can be bought and sold.

Expected Return

The weighted average of the probable returns of an investment, considering all possible outcomes and their likelihoods.

Standard Deviation

A statistical index that measures how much data values deviate from each other within a dataset.

Beta Coefficient

A measure of a stock's volatility in relation to the overall market; a higher beta indicates greater volatility.