Expected return on two stocks for two particular market
returns:
Market
Return
Aggressive Stock
Defensive Stock
5%
-2%
6%
25%
38%
12%
- What are the betas of the two stocks (Hint: compute each
stock’s beta by calculating the difference in its return across the
two scenarios divided by the difference in the market return)?
- What is the expected rate of return on each stock if the market
return is equally likely to be 5% or 25% (Hint: ‘equally likely’
provides the probability of each outcome)?
- If the T-bill rate is 6% and the market return is equally
likely to be 5% or 25%, draw the SML for this economy.