Rank the following stocks in decreasing order of risk-to-reward preference for an investor:

Stock A: Historically generated the following rates of return over the past 6 years: 12%, 18%,-6%,11%,2%, and 9%.

Stock B: Expected to generate 18%,-8%, and 12% under different states of the economy, the probability of optimistic and pessimistic scenarios is 20% each.

Stock C: The beta of the stock is 1.8 , the risk-free rate =4%, the market risk-premium =14%, and the standard deviation of the market =25%; the correlation between market and stock returns is 0.78 .

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