FIN 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Barrick Gold, S&P 500 Index, Dividend Yield

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Finance
• Course: FIN 300
• Professor: Patricia Mc Graw

Document Summary

10. 1 a first look at risk and return. 10. 3 the historical tradeoff between risk and return. 10. 2 historical risks and returns of stocks: computing historical returns, realized returns, individual investment realized returns, the realized return from your investment in the stock from t to t+1 is: Barrick gold corp. stock (ticker symbol: abx. to) paid a dividend of sh. 20 on march 15, 2013. (note: barrick pays dividends in u. s. dollars [usd], but canadian financial websites such as. Yahoo!finance canada (ca. finance. yahoo. com ) report the dividends in canadian dollars [cad] when one uses barrick"s toronto stock exchange ticker symbol abx. to instead of the new. Suppose you bought barrick stock for . 82 on january 1, 2013, and sold it immediately after the dividend was paid for . 22. We can use equation 10. 1 to calculate the realized return. Knowing the purchase price (. 78), the selling price (. 22), and the dividend (sh. 20), we are ready to proceed.