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作者: brain_wash_your    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27     标题: 2011 Mock Question 19

How come in the answer they use the ending market period to calculate return?

To me, the correct method is to do a weighted average of the stock price changes using the Market Cap at 1/1/09 as weight.

The problem says no stock splits or dividends, so the only reason for a difference between the price change and the market cap change is an acquisition or a spinoff, neither of which would cause a value weighted index to apprecaite.

I got equally weighted as very narrowly beating out price weighted.

thanks for any help in advance.
作者: Darien    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27

gregorynep Wrote:
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> How come in the answer they use the ending market
> period to calculate return?
>
> To me, the correct method is to do a weighted
> average of the stock price changes using the
> Market Cap at 1/1/09 as weight.
>
> The problem says no stock splits or dividends, so
> the only reason for a difference between the price
> change and the market cap change is an acquisition
> or a spinoff, neither of which would cause a value
> weighted index to apprecaite.
>
> I got equally weighted as very narrowly beating
> out price weighted.
>
> thanks for any help in advance.

This example is directly out of the book...the book would be better than anyone else telling you how to do it.
作者: ll11    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27

Where is the example in the book? Do you mean Reading 32, page 208? the example here has market value changing by the price change.
作者: lcw77    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27

Logically, something is wrong in both the book example and the mock exam.

If there are no changes in shares outstanding, mathematically the price change and market value change would be the same - but it's not!

I'm gonna go with their 'total market cap' approach from the book if this comes up on the exam!
作者: zwjy    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27

At risk of being shot for not consulting the book first -- I was reviewing this today, and i see how they determined that market cap > price weighted, but how did they calculate equal weighted rate of return?
作者: lcai    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27

darkstar Wrote:
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> Logically, something is wrong in both the book
> example and the mock exam.
>
> If there are no changes in shares outstanding,
> mathematically the price change and market value
> change would be the same - but it's not!
>
> I'm gonna go with their 'total market cap'
> approach from the book if this comes up on the
> exam!

I think it is more just to show the example than anything else.
作者: mar350    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27

Equally weighted : 13.72%, why value-weighted (13.5%) will result in the largest return ?
And price-weighted = 63.9/56.41 - 1 = 12.37% ?
作者: mp3bu    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27

markCFAIL Wrote:
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> At risk of being shot for not consulting the book
> first -- I was reviewing this today, and i see how
> they determined that market cap > price weighted,
> but how did they calculate equal weighted rate of
> return?

Sum up the returns, divide by 5.
作者: susana    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27

For the price column? would that not be price weighted?
作者: oneboy    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27

I got 13.72 aswell but for equal you equally weight the price weighted returns not the market cap ones
作者: former    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27

john99986 Wrote:
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> but for equal you equally
> weight the price weighted returns not the market
> cap ones

What do you mean ?
作者: NakedPuts00    时间: 2011-7-13 13:27

the show NY Wrote:
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> Equal: (7.7 + 17.9 + 14.3 + 11.6 + 10.5) / 5 =
> 12.4%

Why changes in prices (%) are used to calculate ?

Shall it be : (8.2+26.0+13.2+9.1+12.1) / 5 = 13.72% ?




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