Question

"As a financial analyst, you are tasked with evaluating a capital budgeting project. You were instructed to use the IRR method and you need to determine an appropriate hurdle rate. The risk-free rate is 4 percent and the expected market rate of return is 11 percent. Your company has a beta of 1.4 and the project that you are evaluating is considered to have risk equal to the average project that the company has accepted in the past. According to CAPM, the appropriate hurdle rate would be ______%. A. 13.8B. 7C. 15D. 4E. 1.4

Answer 1

A. 13.8

Step-by-step explanation:

In this question, we are applying the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) formula shown below

Expected rate of return = Risk-free rate of return + Beta × (Market rate of return - Risk-free rate of return)

= 4% + 1.4 × (11% - 4%)

= 4% + 1.4 × 7%

= 4% + 9.8%

= 13.8%

The Market rate of return - Risk-free rate of return) is also called as the market risk premium.