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Using the company you have selected for your current event paper [or any publicly traded company of your choice], construct or set up an equation to calculate the expected or required rate of return for the company using the APT model. You may use hypothetical or estimated numbers to complete this conceptual problem. HINT:The goal here is for you to assess the relative significance of each of the factors that will affect the required or expected rate of return specific to your company and demonstrate you understand how this equation is actually used for investment analysis.
Using the company you have selected for your current event paper [or any publicly traded company of your choice], construct or set up an equation to calculate the expected or required rate of return for the company using the APT model. You may use hypothetical or estimated numbers to complete this conceptual problem. HINT:The goal here is for you to assess the relative significance of each of the factors that will affect the required or expected rate of return specific to your company and demonstrate you understand how this equation is actually used for investment analysis.
Tod ThielLv2
14 Jan 2018
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