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Risk, Return, and the Capital Asset Pricing ModelAs a first dayintern at Tri-Star Management Incorporated the CEO asks you toanalyze the following in-formation pertaining to two common stockinvestments, Tech.com Incorporated and Sam’s Grocery Cor-poration.You are told that a one-year Treasury Bill will have a rate ofreturn of 5% over the next year. Also, information from aninvestment advising service lists the current beta for Tech.com as1.68 and for Sam’s Grocery as 0.52. You are provided a series ofquestions to guide your analysis.

Estimated Rate of Return

Economy            Probability         Tech.com           Sam’s Grocery                 S&P 500

Recession          30%                       –20%                                    5%                        – 4%

Average             20%                       15%                                       6%                        11%

Expansion          35%                       30%                                       8%                        17%       

Boom                   15%                       50%                                       10%                      27%

1. Which of these two-stock portfolios do you prefer?Why

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Expected return from Tech.com =[-20*.3]+[15*.2]+[30*.35]+[50*.15]

                                             = 15%

Expected return from sam grocery : [5*.3]+[6*.2]+[8*.35]+[10*.15]

                                       = 7%

Expected return from s&p (market) =[-4*.3]+[11*.20]+[17*.35]+[27*.15]=11%

Required return from tech.com :Rf+[Beta(Rm-Rf)]

                            = 5+ [1.68(11*5)]

                            = 5+ [1.68*6]

                            = 5+ 10.08

                            = 15.08%

Required return from sam 5 +[.52(11-5)].

                    = 5+ [.52 *6]

                     = 5+ 3.12

                         = 8.12%

since Both stock are yielding more than there expected return ,both are acceptable.However we will prefer most \"Sam grocery\"as it is yielding more by 1.12% than expected [8.12-7] as against Tech.com by .08% [15.08-15]


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