The purple lion beverage company expects the following cash flows from its manufacturing plant in palau over the next six years: annual cash flows year 1 year 2 year 3 year 4 year 5 year 6 $400,000 $37,500 $480,000 $450,000 $550,000 $375,000 the cfo of the company believes that an appropriate annual interest rate on this investment is 4%. what is the present value of this uneven cash flow stream, rounded to the nearest whole dollar?

Your mother's well-diversified portfolio has an expected return of 12.0% and a beta of 1.20. she is in the process of buying 100 shares of safety corp. at $10 a share and adding it to her portfolio. safety has an expected return of 15.0% and a beta of 2.00. the total value of your current portfolio is $9,000. what will the expected return and beta on the portfolio be after the purchase of the safety stock?

Email viruses are typically launched by people who modify header information to hide their identity. brightmail's enrique salem says that in the future, your email reader will authenticate the sender before putting hte message in your inbox. that way, you will know the source of all the emails you read. alan nugent of novell says, "i'm kind of a fan of eliminating anonymity if that is the price for security." will eliminating anonymity make computers more secure?

What do you think: would it be more profitable to own 200 shares of penny’s pickles or 1 share of exxon? why do you think that?