Which of the Following Statements Is CORRECT

question 105

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

• A) If an investor buys enough stocks, he or she can, through diversification, eliminate all of the diversifiable risk inherent in owning stocks.Therefore, if a portfolio contained all publicly traded stocks, it would be essentially riskless.
• B) The required return on a firm's common stock is, in theory, determined solely by its market risk.If the market risk is known, and if that risk is expected to remain constant, then no other information is required to specify the firm's required return.
• C) Portfolio diversification reduces the variability of returns (as measured by the standard deviation)of each individual stock held in a portfolio.
• D) A security's beta measures its non-diversifiable, or market, risk relative to that of an average stock.
• E) A stock's beta is less relevant as a measure of risk to an investor with a well-diversified portfolio than to an investor who holds only that one stock.

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Definitions:

Days' Sales

The metric used to evaluate how efficiently a company can convert its inventory into sales, often expressed as days' sales in inventory.

Receivables

All money claims against other entities, including people, business firms, and other organizations.

Current Liabilities

Short-term financial obligations a company owes and is expected to pay within a year, such as accounts payable and short-term loans.

Current Ratio

A liquidity ratio that measures a company's ability to pay short-term obligations or those due within one year.