This chapter discusses risk and return, and their relationship to the cost of capital. It defines different types of returns, such as dividend yield and capital gain yield, and provides an example calculation. The chapter then discusses measuring risk through variance and standard deviation, and how diversification can help reduce overall portfolio risk by spreading investments across different asset classes. The key relationship discussed is that higher expected returns generally correspond to higher risks.
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Risk and Return
Risk and Return are related.
How?
This chapter will focus on risk and return and their
relationship to the opportunity cost of capital.
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Equity Rates of Return:
A Review
Capital Gain + Dividend
Initial Share Price Percentage Return =
Dividend Yield =
Dividend
Initial Share Price Capital Gain
Initial Share Price Capital Gain Yield =
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Rates of Return: Example
Example: You purchase shares of GE stock at $15.13 on December 31, 2009. You
sell them exactly one year later for $18.29. During this time GE paid $.46 in
dividends per share. Ignoring transaction costs, what is your rate of return,
dividend yield and capital gain yield?
Percentage Return = $18.29 - $15.13 + +
$.46
=
23.93% $15.13
Dividend Yield = $.46 3.04%
$15.13
=
Capital Gain Yield = $18.29 - $15.13
=
$15.13 20.89%
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Real Rates of Return
Recall the relationship between real rates and nominal rates:
1+ real rate of return =
1 + nominal rate of return
1 + inflation rate Example: Suppose inflation from December 2009 to December 2010 was
1.5%. What was GE stocks real rate of return, if its nominal rate of return
was 23.93%?
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Capital Market History:
Market Indexes
Market Index - Measure of the investment performance of the
overall market.
Dow Jones Industrial Average (The Dow)
Standard & Poors Composite Index (S&P 500)
Other Market Indexes?
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Total Returns for Different
Asset Classes
The Value of an Investment of $1 in 1900
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What Drives the Difference in
Total Returns?
Maturity Premium: Extra average return from investing in
long- versus short-term Treasury securities.
Risk Premium: Expected return in excess of risk-free return
as compensation for risk.
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Returns and Risk
How are the expected returns and
the risk of a security related?
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Measuring Risk
Variance: Average value of squared deviations from
mean. A measure of volatility.
Standard Deviation: Square root of variance. Also a
measure of volatility.
What is risk?
How can it be measured?
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Variance and Standard
Deviation: Example
Coin Toss Game: calculating variance and standard deviation
(assume a mean of 10)
(1) (2) (3)
Percent Rate of Return Deviation from Mean Squared Deviation
+ 40 + 30 900
+ 10 0 0
+ 10 0 0
- 20 - 30 900
Variance = average of squared deviations = 1800 / 4 = 450
Standard deviation = square of root variance = 450 = 21.2%
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Histogram of Returns
What is the relationship
between the volatility of
these securities and their
expected returns?
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Risk and Diversification
Diversification
Strategy designed to reduce risk by spreading a portfolio
across many investments.
Unique Risk:
Risk factors affecting only that firm. Also called
diversifiable risk.
Market Risk:
Economy-wide sources of risk that affect the overall stock
market. Also called systematic risk.
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Diversification:
Building a Portfolio
A portfolios rate of return is the weighted sum of each assets rate of
return.
fraction of portfolio rate of return
脱 旦 脱 旦
巽 存 巽 存
竪 淡 竪 淡
脱 旦 脱 旦
巽 存 巽 存
竪 淡 竪 淡
Portfolio Rate of Return = x
in first asset on first asset
fraction of portfolio rate of return
+ x
in second asset on second asset
Two Asset Case:
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Building a Portfolio: Example
Consider the following portfolio:
Stock Weight Rate of Return
IBM
w =
50% r =
8.3% IBM IBM Starbucks
w =
25% r =
12.5% SBUX SBUX Walmart
w =
25% r =
4.7% W W What is the portfolio rate of return?
( wIBM 卒rIBM ) + ( wSBUX 卒rSBUX ) + ( wW 卒rW
)
( ) ( )
Portfolio Rate of Return =
= 卒 + 卒 + 卒
=
(50% 8.3%) 25% 12.5% 25% 4.7%
8.45%
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Do stock prices move together?
What effect does diversification have on a
portfolios total risk, unique risk and market risk?
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Thinking About Risk
Message 1
Some Risks Look Big and Dangerous but Really Are
Diversifiable
Message 2
Market Risks Are Macro Risks
Message 3
Risk Can Be Measured
Editor's Notes
#2: Chapter 11 Learning Objectives
1. Estimate the opportunity cost of capital for an average-risk project.
2. Calculate returns and standard deviation of returns for individual common stocks or for a stock portfolio.
3. Understand why diversification reduces risk.
4. Distinguish between specific risk, which can be diversified away, and market risk, which cannot.
#3: Chapter 11 Outline
Rates of Return: A Review
Dividends and Capital Gains
Real Rates of Return
A Century of Capital Market History
Market Indexes
Measuring Risk
Risk & Diversification
Thinking About Risk
#4: Dividend Periodic cash distribution to shareholders.
Capital Gain The difference between the sell price and the buy price of a security.
#6: Rate of Return Total income and capital appreciation per period per dollar invested.
Inflation Rate at which prices as a whole are increasing.
#7: Market Index Measure of the investment performance of the overall market.
Dow Jones Industrial Average Index of the investment performance of a portfolio of 30 bluechip stocks.
S&P Composite Index Index of the investment performance of a portfolio of 500 large stocks. Also called the S&P 500.
#8: Notes: The y-axis is in log-dollars.
Equities = Diversified Portfolio of Common Stocks
Bonds = Treasury bonds issued by the U.S. government with average maturity of 10 years
Bills = Treasury bills issued by the U.S. government with maturity of 3-months.
#9: Maturity Premium Extra average return from investing in long- versus short-term Treasury securities.
Risk Premium Expected return in excess of risk-free return as compensation for risk
#12: Variance - Average value of squared deviations from mean. A measure of volatility.
Standard Deviation Square root of variance. A measure of volatility.
#13: Variance - Average value of squared deviations from mean. A measure of volatility.
Standard Deviation Square root of variance. A measure of volatility.
#16: Diversification - Strategy designed to reduce risk by spreading the portfolio across many investments.
Unique Risk - Risk factors affecting only that firm. Also called diversifiable risk.
Market Risk - Economy-wide sources of risk that affect the overall stock market. Also called systematic risk.
#19: Diversification - Strategy designed to reduce risk by spreading the portfolio across many investments.
Unique Risk - Risk factors affecting only that firm. Also called diversifiable risk.
Market Risk - Economy-wide sources of risk that affect the overall stock market. Also called systematic risk.