What are the portfolio weights of each stock

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1. If you own 200 shares of Xerox ai $17.54, 300 shares of Uwest all $8.35, and 100 shares of Liz Claiborne at 544.93, what are the portfolio weights of each stock ? (Round your answers to 3 decimal places.)

Portfolio weights
Xerox
Qwest
Liz Claiborne

2. The past rpm monthly returns for PG&E are -3.47 percent, 4.63 percent. 4.07 percent. 6.92 percent. and 3.88 percent. What is the average monthly return? (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)

Average return

3. The past five monthly returns for PG&E are -3.21 percent. 4.13 percent, 3 87 percent, 612 percent, and 3.6 percent Compute the standard deviation of PG&Es monthly returns (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places.)
Standard deviation ____

4. The past &ye monthly returns for Kohl's are 3.64 percent, 3.87 percent. -1.78 percent, 9.30 percent, and -2.66 percent Compute the standard deviation of kohls' monthly returns. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places.)
Standard deviation ___

5. If you own 250 shares of Alaska Air at $66.88, 300 shares of Best Buy at $75.32, and 200 shares of Ford Motor at $9.51, what are the portfolio weights of each stock? (Round your answers to 3 decimal pfaces.)

Portfolio weights
Alaska Air
Best Buy
Ford Motor

6.

Table Average Returns for Bonds

 

 

Low-risk bonds

1950 to 1959

Average

2.4%

1960 to 1969

Average

4.6

1970 to 1979

Average

 

1930 to 1989

Average

8.9

1990 to 1999

Average

4.7

2000 to 2009

Average

2.5

Table Annual Standard Deviation for T-Bills

 

Low-risk bonds

1950 to 1959

1.1%

1960 to 1969

1.5

1970 to 1979

 

1930 to 1989

2.9

1990 to 1999

1.5

2000 to 2009

1.7

Calculate the coefficient of variation of the risk-return relationship (Use the above Tables) during each decade since 1950. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Decade      CoV

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

7. Following are three economic states, their likelihoods: and the potential returns:

Economic State

Probability
Return

Fast growth

0.19

30

Slow growth

0.42

13

Recession

0.3

-24

Determine the standard deviation of the expected return .(Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Standard deviation____

8. You own $19,084 of Human Genome stock that has an assumed beta of 3.55. You also own $13,212 of Frozen Food Express (assumed beta = 1.57) and $4,404 of Molecular Devices (assumed beta = 0.64)

What is the beta of your portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Portfolio beta

9. You own $11,153 of Olympic Steel stock that has a beta of 1.98. You also own $20,545 of Rent-a-Center (beta = 1.58) and $27,002 of Lincoln Educational (heta = 0.73).

What is the beta of your portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculation and round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

10. Following are three economic states: their likelihoods: and the potential returns:

Economic State

Probability
Return

Fast growth

0.20

41

Slow growth

0.62

16

Recession

0.18

-34

Determine the standard deviation of the expected return. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

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This assignment covers multiple numerical pertaining to portfolio management which requires calculating the portfolio standard deviation, returns and beta. In addition, it also requires calculating the weighted average cost of capital based on the various different hypothetical data sets given.

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