Corporate Finance Tutorial
Corporate Finance Tutorial
Corporate Finance Tutorial
MARKS
No.
10
Choice
2) Which of the following is the goal of a corporation under a well-functioning capital market?
A) maximize sales and profits
B) reconcile current and future consumption for shareholders
C) invest all projects with positive NPV
D) diversify investment projects to reduce risk
3) If the eight-year discount factor is 4/9, what is the future value of $1 at the end of four years?
A) $1.50
B) $1.97
C) $ 0.67
D) $1.14
5) Suppose the cost of capital is 12% per year. Ever Green is a mature company fully financed by equity.
It is estimated to have a stable growth rate 2% per year. It has a payout ratio 80%. What would be the
price-earnings ratio for Ever Green?
A) 12
B) 10
C) 8
D) 6
6) Summer Co. is expected to pay a dividend or $4.00 per share out of earnings of $7.50 per share. If the
required rate of return on the stock is 15% and dividends are growing at a current rate of 10% per year,
what is the present value of the growth opportunity for the stock (PVGO)?
A) $80
B) $50
C) $30
D) $26
7) The expected rate of returns for stock A and B are 5% and 25%, respectively. The standard deviations
are 4% and 40%, respectively. The correlation coefficient between their returns is 0.2. Suppose you have
an investment portfolio based on these two stocks. If the portfolio offers a rate of 10%, what is its
standard deviation?
A) 10%
B) 11%
C) 12%
D) 13%
8) Suppose the expected rates return of two stocks A and B are 9% and 15%, respectively. The
corresponding standard deviations are 20% and 40%, respectively. If the returns of A and B were
indeed perfectly negatively correlated, the portfolio strategy that would completely eliminate risk
should have a rate of return of
A) 9%
B) 11%
C) 12%
D) 15%