Congratulations! a Stock of Which You Own 100 Shares Has

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Essay

Congratulations! A stock of which you own 100 shares has just split three for two. Its market price before the split was $30 per share. Now discuss what you would expect to happen with this stock and your ownership interests.

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Definitions:

SML Approach

The Security Market Line approach, a concept in finance that describes the risk vs. return relationship for individual securities, based on the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).

Firm's Beta

A measure of a stock's volatility in comparison to the market as a whole, indicating its riskiness.

Cost of Equity

The return a firm theoretically pays to its equity investors to compensate for the risk they undertake by investing their capital.

WACC

Weighted Average Cost of Capital, a calculation of a firm's cost of capital weighted by each category of capital, including equity and debt, reflective of the risk and cost of each type of financing.