A company has a beta of 1.3. The risk-free interest rate today is 8 percent, and the

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A company has a beta of 1.3. The risk-free interest rate today is 8 percent, and the return on a market portfolio of stocks is 14 percent. (Therefore, the market risk premium is 6 percent, the difference between the market return and the risk-free return.)
a. What is the required return (equity cost) on the company's stock?
b. If the risk-free rate rises to 9 percent, what will be the required rate of return on the company's stock?
c. If the beta of this company were 0.8, what would be its required rate of return?
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Managerial Economics

ISBN: 978-0133020267

7th edition

Authors: Paul Keat, Philip K Young, Steve Erfle

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