Investment in one of the two common stock

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1. (Expected rate of return and risk) Summerville Inc. is considering an investment in one of the two common stock. Given the information that follows, which investment is better, based on the risk (as measured by the standard deviation) and return of each?

	COMMON STOCK .A	COMMON STOCK S
PROBABILITY	RETURN	PROBABILITY	RETURN
0.30	11%	010	-5%
0-40	15%	030	6%
030	19%	0.30	14%
		0..20	22%

2, (Capital assets pricing model) The expected return for the general market is 12.8 percent, and the risk premium in the market is 9.3 percent. Tasaco, LBM, and Exxos have betas of 0.864, 0.693, and 0.575, respectively. What are the corresponding required rates of return for the three securities?

3. (Breakeven analysis) You have developed the following income statement for the Hugo Boss Corporation. It represents the most recent year's operations, which ended yesterday.

Sales $ 50,439,375
Variable costs 25,137400)
Revenue for fixed costs $25302375
Fixed cost 00,143,000)
EDIT $15,159,375
Interest expense _$1,488,375)
Earnings before taxes $13,671,000
Taxes at 50% (6,835,500)
Net income $ 6,835,500

Your supervisor in the controller's office has just handed you a memorandum asking for written responses to the following question:

a. What is the firm's break-even point in sales dollars?

b. If sales should increase by 30 percent, by what percent would earnings taxes (and net income) increases?

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