PRIN.OF CORPORATE FINANCE
PRIN.OF CORPORATE FINANCE
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Chapter 7, Problem 3PS

Arithmetic average and compound returns* Integrated Potato Chips (IPC) does not pay a dividend. Its current stock price is $150 and there is an equal probability that the return over the coming year will be –10%, +20%, or +50%.

  1. a) What is the expected price at year-end?
  2. b) If the probabilities of future returns remain unchanged and you could observe the returns of IPC over a large number of years, what would be the (arithmetic) average return?
  3. c) If you were to discount IPG’s expected price at year-end from part (a) by this number, would you underestimate, overestimate, or correctly estimate the stock’s present value?
  4. d) If you could observe the returns of IPC over a large number of years, what would be the compound (geometric average) rate of return?
  5. e) If you were to discount IPC's expected price at year-end from part (a) by this number, would you underestimate, overestimate, or correctly estimate the stock’s present value?
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