Question

Landon Stevens is evaluating the expected performance of two common stocks, Furhman Labs, Inc., and Garten Testing, Inc. The risk-free rate is 4.4 percent, the expected return on the market is 10.6 percent, and the betas of the two stocks are 1.4 and 0.7, respectively. Stevens’s own forecasts of the returns on the two stocks are 10.60 percent for Furhman Labs and 10.50 percent for Garten.

Required:
a. Calculate the required return for each stock.
b. Is each stock undervalued, fairly valued, or overvalued?

Answer 1

a. Furhman Labs, Inc. : 13.08%

Garten Testing, Inc. : 8.74%

b. Furhman Labs

the stock is undervalued

Garten Testing

the stock is overvalued

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the capital asset price model: Expected rate of return = risk free + beta x (market rate of return - risk free rate of return)

Furhman Labs, Inc. : 4.4 + 1.4(10.6 - 4.4) = 13.08%

Garten Testing, Inc. : 4.4 + 0.7(10.6 - 4.4) = 8.74%

A stock is overvalued if its intrinsic value is less than the forecast, and, it is undervalued if its intrinsic value is greater than the forecast

Furhman Labs, intrinsic value = 13.08

forecasted value = 10.60

the stock is undervalued

Garten Testing, Inc , intrinsic value = 8.74%

forecasted value = 10.50

the stock is overvalued