1. Junior & Co. Company has a beta of 0.9. The Treasury bill
rate is 3%. The expected market return is 11%.
a. Explain why the Treasury bill rate could be considered a
risk-free rate.
b. Calculate the expected return of Junior & Co.
c. Calculate the market risk premium.
2. You buy a share today for 300 KD. The shares pays no dividend. One year from today, you were able to sell your share for 350 KD. Find the money return and the rate of the return of this share.
Ans 1_a | ||||||||
Treasury bill are issued by the government and have not liquidity and default risk | ||||||||
Since they are most secured bond or debt instrument available in the country | ||||||||
they can prefectly be regarded as risk free rate | ||||||||
Ans 1_b | expected return = Risk free rate + (Market return - risk free rate)*Beta | |||||||
3%+(11%-3%)*0.9 | ||||||||
10.20% | ||||||||
Ans = | 10.20% | |||||||
Ans 1_c | ||||||||
Market risk premium = Market return - Risk free rate | ||||||||
11%-3% | ||||||||
8.00% | ||||||||
Ans 2 | Money return = | 50KD | ||||||
350kd -300 kd = | ||||||||
Rate of return = | 16.67% | |||||||
50/300 | ||||||||
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