Which of the following statements is true?

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Which of the following statements is true?

 

A company with a Beta less than 1.0 has a higher expect return than the market return

 

A company with a Beta of 1.0 should have an expected return equal to an index fund.

 

A roughly equal number of companies have positive Betas versus those with negative Betas

 

The market Beta is 9% 

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