A Stock Has a Return of 16

question 82

Multiple Choice

A stock has a return of 16.9 percent, a standard deviation of 11.7 percent, and a beta of 1.57. The risk-free rate is 2.65 percent and the market risk premium is 8.45 percent. What is the Jensen-Treynor alpha of this stock?

• A) -1.37 percent
• B) -1.09 percent
• C) -0.48 percent
• D) 0.29 percent
• E) 0.63 percent

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