The stock of Jones Trucking is expected to return 13 percent annually with a standard deviation of
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a. What is the expected return from a portfolio containing the two securities if 40 percent of your wealth is invested in Jones and 60 percent is invested in Bush?
b. What is the expected standard deviation of the portfolio of the two stocks?
c. Which stock is the better buy in the current market? Why?
Dividend
A dividend is a distribution of a portion of company’s earnings, decided and managed by the company’s board of directors, and paid to the shareholders. Dividends are given on the shares. It is a token reward paid to the shareholders for their... Expected Return
The expected return is the profit or loss an investor anticipates on an investment that has known or anticipated rates of return (RoR). It is calculated by multiplying potential outcomes by the chances of them occurring and then totaling these... Portfolio
A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Contemporary Financial Management
ISBN: 9780324289114
10th Edition
Authors: James R Mcguigan, R Charles Moyer, William J Kretlow
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