Overall Cost of Capital: What Is the Beta of a Firm

question 72

Multiple Choice

Overall cost of capital: What is the beta of a firm whose equity has an expected return of 21.3 percent when the risk-free rate of return is 7.0 percent and the expected return on the market is 18.0 percent?

• A) 0.79
• B) 1.30
• C) 1.57
• D) none of the above

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