Your Opinion Is That CSCO Has an Expected Rate of Return

question 34

Multiple Choice

Your opinion is that CSCO has an expected rate of return of 0.1375.It has a beta of 1.3.The risk-free rate is 0.04 and the market expected rate of return is 0.115.According to the Capital Asset Pricing Model,this security is

• A) underpriced by 10%.
• B) overpriced.
• C) fairly priced.
• D) cannot be determined from data provided.
• E) underpriced by 5%.

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Definitions:

Two-tail Test

A statistical hypothesis test in which the area of interest is on both sides of the distribution, allowing for testing of both extreme high and low results.

Population Means

The average value of a particular characteristic for an entire population.

One-tail Area

Refers to the area under the probability distribution curve to either the left or right of a specified value, used in hypothesis testing to assess one-sided significance.

Equal-variances Test

A statistical procedure used to assess whether the variances of two populations are equal, as assumed by certain parametric tests.