The risk-free rate of return is 8%, the expected rate of return on the market portfolio is 15%, and the stock of xyrong corporation has a beta coefficient of 1.2. xyrong pays out 40% of its earnings in dividends, and the latest earnings announced were $10 per share. dividends were just paid and are expected to be paid annually. you expect that xyrong will earn an roe of 18% per year on all reinvested earnings forever. a) what is the intrinsic value of a share of xyrong stock? b) if the market price of a share is currently $103, and you expect the market price to be equal to the intrinsic value one year from now, what is your expected one-year holding-period return on xyrong stock?

Stocks a, b, and c are similar in some respects: each has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 25%. stocks a and b have returns that are independent of one another; i.e., their correlation coefficient, r, equals zero. stocks a and c have returns that are negatively correlated with one another; i.e., r is less than 0. portfolio ab is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half in stock b. portfolio ac is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half invested in stock c. which of the following statements is correct? a. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.b. portfolio ac has an expected return that is less than 10%.c. portfolio ac has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.d. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is equal to 25%.e. portfolio ac has an expected return that is greater than 25%.