One Year Ago,you Bought a Stock for $36

question 91

Multiple Choice

One year ago,you bought a stock for $36.48 a share.You received a dividend of $1.62 per share last month and sold the stock today for $41.18 a share.What is the capital gains yield on this investment?

• A)2.86 percent
• B)4.70 percent
• C)12.88 percent
• D)15.62 percent
• E)18.53 percent

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First Major Extinction

Refers to the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event, which is believed to be the first of the five major extinction events in Earth's history, occurring approximately 443 million years ago.

Epoch

A division of time that is smaller than a period and greater than an age, used in geology to describe sections of the geologic timescale.

Ordovician

A geologic period and system which is the second period of the Paleozoic Era, characterized by the diversification of marine life.

Radioactive Decay

The process by which the nucleus of an unstable atom loses energy by emitting radiation, leading to a change in its number of protons and/or neutrons.