Your stockbroker has called to tell you about two stocks: Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) and Tesla Inc. (TSLA). She tells you that META is selling for $255.00 per share and that she expects the price in one year to be $280.00. TSLA is selling for $185.00 per share and she expects the price in one year to be $205.00. The expected return on META has a standard deviation of 18 percent, while the expected return on TSLA has a standard deviation of 35 percent. The market risk premium for the S & P 500 has averaged 6.0 percent. The beta for META is 1.20 and the beta for TSLA is 2.00. The 10-year Treasury bond rate is currently 4.00%. Neither META nor TSLA pays a cash dividend. Required: Determine the probability for each stock that you would earn a positive return. Determine the probability for each stock that you would earn less than your required rate of return.

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  3.      Your stockbroker has called to tell you about two stocks: Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) and Tesla Inc. (TSLA). She tells you that META is selling for $255.00 per share and that she expects the price in one year to be $280.00. TSLA is selling for $185.00 per share and she expects the price in one year to be $205.00. The expected return on META has a standard deviation of 18 percent, while the expected return on TSLA has a standard deviation of 35 percent. The market risk premium for the S & P 500 has averaged 6.0 percent. The beta for META is 1.20 and the beta for TSLA is 2.00. The 10-year Treasury bond rate is currently 4.00%. Neither META nor TSLA pays a cash dividend.

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  1. Determine the probability for each stock that you would earn a positive return.
  2. Determine the probability for each stock that you would earn less than your required rate of return.

 

 

 

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