Lavender, Inc. announces a large stock dividend of 65% of the 3.1 million outstanding shares of common stock. The current price per share is $8.85. Par value of the stock is $0.01 per share. What effect does this dividend have on retained earnings?

a. $31,000 decrease
b. $20,150 decrease
c. $17,832,750 decrease
d. $11,591,288 decrease

Your mother's well-diversified portfolio has an expected return of 12.0% and a beta of 1.20. she is in the process of buying 100 shares of safety corp. at $10 a share and adding it to her portfolio. safety has an expected return of 15.0% and a beta of 2.00. the total value of your current portfolio is $9,000. what will the expected return and beta on the portfolio be after the purchase of the safety stock?

The larger the investment you make, the easier it will be to: get money from other sources. guarantee cash flow. buy insurance. streamline your products.

Bonds often pay a coupon twice a year. for the valuation of bonds that make semiannual payments, the number of periods doubles, whereas the amount of cash flow decreases by half. using the values of cash flows and number of periods, the valuation model is adjusted accordingly. assume that a $1,000,000 par value, semiannual coupon us treasury note with three years to maturity has a coupon rate of 3%. the yield to maturity (ytm) of the bond is 7.70%. using this information and ignoring the other costs involved, calculate the value of the treasury note: