Bunkhouse electronics is a recently incorporated firm that makes electronic entertainment systems. its earnings and dividends have been growing at a rate of 30%, and the current dividend yield is 2%. its beta is 1.2, the market risk premium is 8%, and the risk-free rate is 4%. (lo13-4) a. use the capm to estimate the firm’s cost of equity. b. now use the constant growth model to estimate the cost of equity. c. which of the two estimates is more reasonable?

Cosmetic profits. sally is the executive vice president of big name cosmetics company. through important and material, nonpublic information, she learns that the company is soon going to purchase a smaller chain of stores. it is expected that stock in big name cosmetics will rise dramatically at that point. sally immediately buys a number of shares of her company's stock. she also tells her friend alice about the expected purchase of stores. alice wanted to purchase stock in the company but lacked the funds with which to do so. although she did not have the funds in bank a, alice decided to draw a check on bank a and deposit the check in bank b and then proceed to write a check on bank b to cover the purchase of the stock. she hoped that she would have sufficient funds to deposit before the check was presented for payment. of which of the following offenses, if any, is alice guilty of by buying stock?

Aprimary advantage of organizing economic activity within firms is thea. ability to coordinate highly complex tasks to allow for specialized division of labor. b. low administrative costs because of reduced bureaucracy. c. eradication of the principal-agent problem. d. high-powered incentive to work as salaried employees for an existing firm.

If an investment has 35 percent more nondiversifiable risk than the market portfolio, its beta will be: