USE THE INFORMATION BELOW FOR THE FOLLOWING PROBLEM(S)

question 70

Multiple Choice

USE THE INFORMATION BELOW FOR THE FOLLOWING PROBLEM(S)
Shares of RossCorp stock are selling for $45 per share. Brokerage commissions are 2 percent for purchases and 2 percent for sales. The interest rate on margin debt is 6.25 percent per year. The maintenance margin is 30 percent.
-Refer to Exhibit 3.7. At the end of one year, shares of RossCorp stock are selling for $35 per share and the company paid dividends of $0.85 per share. Assuming that you borrowed 25 percent of cost of the purchase, what is your rate of return?

• A) 33.05 percent
• B) -33.05 percent
• C) -23.51 percent
• D) -25.35 percent
• E) -40.64 percent

---

Definitions:

Marginal Product of Labor

This refers to the additional output a firm gains from hiring one more unit of labor, holding all other factors constant.

Surplus

Surplus refers to the situation where the quantity of a product or service supplied in a market exceeds the quantity demanded at the current price.

Compensating Differentials

Wage differentials that compensate workers for the job attributes, such as difficulty or undesirable conditions.

Salary

Regular payment from an employer to an employee, typically expressed on an annual basis but paid monthly or biweekly.