Security Analysis
- Consider the following table, which gives a security analyst’s expected return on two stocks for two
particular market returns:
a. What are the betas of the two stocks?
b. What is the expected rate of return on each stock?
c. If the T-bill rate is 8%, draw the SML for this economy.
d. Plot the two securities on the SML graph. What are the alphas of each?
e. What hurdle rate should be used by the management of the aggressive firm for a project with the
risk characteristics of the defensive firm’s stock?
