What are the prices of a call option and a put option with the following characteristics? Stock price = $73 Exercise price = $70 Risk-free rate of return = 4%, compounded continuously Maturity = 8 months Standard deviation = 49% per year.
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Apple Inc.’s annual stock returns for the last five years are: 146.81%, 53.09%, 25.55%, 32.56%, and 8.06%. The S&P 500 Index’s annual returns for the last five years are: 23.45%, 12.78%, 0.00%, 13.41%, and 29.60%. What is Apple’s beta coefficient?
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Kerry and Rob just had their first child, Helene. Being financially responsible parents, they want to start saving for Helene's college education so that they will have $355,000 by the time she is 18. Assuming that they have $10,000 in a bank account..
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McDowell Industries sells on terms of 3/10, net 20. Total sales for the year are $1,256,500; 40% of the customers pay on the 10th day and take discounts, while the other 60% pay, on average, 80 days after their purchases. What is the days' sales outs..
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Calculate the required rate of return for Climax Inc., assuming that (1) investors expect a 4.0% rate of inflation in the future, (2) the real risk-free rate is 3.0%, (3) the market risk premium is 5.0%, (4) the firm has a beta of 2.40, and (5) its r..
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Discuss whether the multinational corp will risk be over-hedged its position to the extend affect the company’s financial position. (250 words at most)
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Rock Bottom Carpets sells 5,600 carpets a year at an average price per carpet of $1,490. The carrying cost per unit is $22.37. The company orders 500 carpets at a time and has a fixed order cost of $69 per order. The carpets are sold out before they ..
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Develop 3 proposals for your development strategy, which include outsourcing (buy), insourcing (make), or a combination of both. Present the pros and cons or benefit analysis for each of the 3 proposals
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MicroSense, Inc., paid $2 dividends per share last year. It is estimated that the company’s ROEs will be 12% and 10%, respectively, next two years. The plowback rate in next two years will be 0.6. It is expected that the dividends will grow at a sust..
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A firm has a market value equal to its book value. Currently, the firm has excess cash of $2,000 and other assets of $4,800. Equity is worth $6,800. The firm has 850 shares of stock outstanding and net income of $1,050. The firm has decided to spend ..
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Mr. Sampson will receive $6,500 a year for the next 14 years from his trust. If an 8 percent interest rate is appropriate: What is the current value of the future payments? What is the current value, if they are received at the beginning of each year..
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What can a bank do to increase its core deposits? What are the costs and benefits of such efforts? Generally, how might management estimate the relative interest elasticity of various deposit liabilities of a bank?
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