Choose a company listed in the FTSE100, 

 Discuss whether this chosen share has a defence, neutral or aggressive beta. You 

have to back up the beta of your chosen share by either references, or by performing 

regression analysis using historical price data for this chosen company against the FTSE 100 

index. Historical price data for individual shares in FTSE100 index can be collected from 

internet sources (for example 

https://finance.yahoo.com/). Based on your market view for the 

FTSE100 index next year and beta for your chosen share, calculate the expected rate of return 

for this share based on Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Risk free rate of return is 

assumed to be 0.1% a year.

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I have chosen the company BP plc listed in the FTSE100 To determine the beta of BP plc I have perf... View the full answer