Exam 9: Characterizing Risk and Return

Rank the following three stocks by their total risk level, highest to lowest. Night Ryder has an average return of 14 percent and standard deviation of 30 percent. The average return and standard deviation of WholeMart are 12 percent and 25 percent; and of Fruit Fly are 25 percent and 40 percent.

Which of the following is correct?

Year to date, Company Y had earned a 7 percent return. During the same time period, Company R earned 9.25 percent and Company C earned -2.25 percent. If you have a portfolio made up of 35 percent Y, 40 percent R, and 25 percent C, what is your portfolio return?

MedTech Corp. stock was $50.95 per share at the end of last year. Since then, it paid a $0.45 per share dividend. The stock price is currently $62.50. If you owned 500 shares of MedTech, what was your percent return?

Interest rates, inflation and economic growth are economic factors that are examples of:

Modern portfolio theory is:

Which of the following is correct?

Jane Adams invests all her money in the stock of one firm. Which of the following must be true?

Determine which one of these three portfolios dominates another. Name the dominated portfolio and the portfolio that dominates it. Portfolio Blue has an expected return of 14 percent and risk of 19 percent. The expected return and risk of portfolio Yellow are 15 percent and 18 percent, and for the Purple portfolio are 16 percent and 21 percent.

Which of the following is a measurement of the co-movement between two variables that ranges between -1 and +1?

The past five monthly returns for K and Company are 2.28 percent, 2.64 percent, -1.05 percent, 4.25 percent, and 9.25 percent. What is the average monthly return?

At the beginning of the month, you owned $15,500 of General Motors, $4,500 of Starbucks, and $9,000 of Nike. The monthly returns for General Motors, Starbucks, and Nike were 7.10 percent, -1.36 percent, and -0.54 percent. What is your portfolio return?

The standard deviation of the past five monthly returns for K and Company are 4.25 percent, 4.13 percent, -2.05 percent, 3.25 percent, and 7.75 percent. What is the standard deviation?

Which of these is a measure of risk to reward earned by an investment over a specific period of time?

An investor owns $2,000 of Adobe Systems stock, $4,000 of Dow Chemical, and $6,000 of Office Depot. What are the portfolio weights of each stock?

Which of these is the term for portfolios with the highest return possible for each risk level?

If you own 400 shares of Xerox at $15.00, 500 shares of Qwest at $10.00, and 350 shares of Liz Claiborne at $45.00, what are the portfolio weights of each stock?

At the beginning of the month, you owned $8,000 of Company G, $8,000 of Company S, and $3,000 of Company N. The monthly returns for Company G, Company S, and Company N were 7.80 percent, 1.50 percent, and -0.75 percent. What is your portfolio return?

Jenna receives an investment newsletter that recommends she invest in a stock that has doubled the return of the S&P 500 in the last two months. It also claims this stock is a "safe bet" for the future. Which of the following statements is correct regarding this information?

Which of the following statements is correct?