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question 66

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Consider two firms,Chihuahua Corporation and Bernard Industries that are each expected to pay the same $1.5 million dividend every year in perpetuity.Chihuahua Corporation is riskier and has an equity cost of capital of 15%.Bernard Industries is not as shaky as Chihuahua,so Bernard has an equity cost of capital of only 10%.Assume that the market portfolio is not efficient.Both stocks have the same beta and an expected return of 12%.
-The alpha for Bernard is closest to:

• A)+5%.
• B)-2%.
• C)-3%.
• D)+2%.

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