Part 5 (ch13) Questions Numeric

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Q1: Alpha Calculation

Q: Consider a stock whose expected return is 11.011 and beta is 0.866. The market risk premium is currently 6.994% and the return of the risk-free asset is 3.022. What is the alpha of the stock?

Answer:

  1. 1.936

Q2: Fama-French Portfolio

Q2: Consider the following information regarding the Fama-French-Carhart four factor model. What is the expected return of Stock A (in %)? And Stock B (in %)?

Factor Port. Average Return (%) Stock A Betas Stock B Betas
Rm - rf 4.993 0.907 0.993
SMB 3.007 0.788 1.119
HML 4.005 0.704 1.191
Mom. 2.481 0.592 1.281

Stock A:

Stock B:

Answer:

  1. 11.183

  2. 16.273