Apollo corp. reported the following balance sheet: cash $28,000 accounts payable $5,000 accounts receivable 15,000 notes payable 12,000 inventory 45,000 accruals 17,000 net fixed assets 122,000 longminusterms debt 45,000common stock 10,000retained earnings 121,000 total assets $210,000 total liab. & equity $210,000 apollo has sales of $600,000 and net income of $50,000. apollo's return on equity is

What do you recommend adam do to increase production in a business setting that does not seem to value high productivity?

You hold a diversified $100,000 portfolio consisting of 20 stocks with $5,000 invested in each. the portfolio's beta is 1.12. you plan to sell a stock with b = 0.90 and use the proceeds to buy a new stock with b = 1.50. what will the portfolio's new beta be? do not round your intermediate calculations.

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?