Stock a Has a Beta of 1

question 45

Multiple Choice

Stock A has a beta of 1.47 while stock B has a beta of 1.08 and an expected return of 13.2 percent. What is the expected return on stock A if the risk-free rate is 4.5 percent and both stocks have equal reward-to-risk premiums?

• A) 12.12 percent
• B) 15.07 percent
• C) 16.34 percent
• D) 16.89 percent
• E) 17.78 percent

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Definitions:

Economic Profits

Profits exceeding the total costs, including both explicit costs and implicit costs such as opportunity costs.

ATC

ATC, or average total cost, is the sum of all production costs divided by the quantity of output produced, encompassing both fixed and variable costs.

MC

Stands for Marginal Cost, which is the change in total cost that arises when the quantity produced is incremented by one unit; it is a key concept in economic theory guiding decision-making on the optimal level of production.

Marginal Cost Curve

A graphical representation showing how the cost of producing one more unit of a good changes as production volume changes.