Tyler Trucks stock has an annual return mean and standard deviation of 9 percent and 28 percent, respectively. Michael Moped Manufacturing stock has an annual return mean and standard deviation of 20 percent and 64 percent, respectively. Your portfol..
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An insurance line has a pure loss ratio of 65%, an expense ratio of 26%, the firm pays 3% of premium to policy holders as dividends, and has an investment yield to premium ratio of 6%. What is the operating ratio?
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Rowan Company has a net profit margin of 8.3 percent, debt ratio of 58 percent, total assets of $5,106,200, sales of $6,663,600, and a dividend payout ratio of 62 percent. What will the firm’s new net profit margin have to be in order to achieve the ..
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A company has total assets of $120,000, current assets of $80,000, total liabilities of $50,000, and current liabilities of $25,000. What is the current ratio?
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lectronic Timing, Inc. (ETI), is a small company founded 15 years ago by electronics engineers Tom Miller and Jessica Kerr. How will this proposal affect the stock price? How will it affect the value of the company? How will a share repurchase affect..
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A $1000 loan over a 10-year period earns an effective rate of interest of 9% per annum. Interest is paid each year as accrued and the principal is repaid at the end of ten years. If the repayments to the lender are reinvested at 7%, find the yield ra..
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An oil company is drilling a series of new wells that are adjacent to an existing oil field. About 20% of the new wells will be dry holes and will produce zero oil. If the wells do, in fact, strike oil, they have different expected values. What is th..
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Sunshine Resorts, Inc. is a fast growing hotel chain whose free cash flow (FCF) in the year just ended was $225 (in millions of dollars). Analysts expect the company's FCF to grow by 40% this year, by 25% in Year 2, by 15% in Year 3, and at a constan..
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The company just paid a $1.80 dividend and plans to pay $1.86 next year. The dividend growth rate is expected to remain constant at the current level. What is the required rate of return (%) on this stock?
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"Promote conditions that empower people's capacity to meet their basic human needs (for example, safe working conditions and sufficient pay to live on)." Other examples include off shoring and outsourcing operations that promote safe working condi..
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One of a CFO's most important responsibilities is to help his/her company in managing growth. This week's readings refer to two growth rates, an internal rate and a sustainable rate of growth. What does each rate mean? Why do we, as CFO's, need to un..
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Suppose Levi's Luxury Shop has cash of $8,745, inventory of $36,287, fixed assets of $14,204, accounts payable of $66,410, and accounts receivable of $20,033. What is the current ratio?
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