Investment Formula with Descriptions Flashcards
Dividend Discount Model Formula (DDM) or Constant Growth Model
Required Rate of Return Formula
Covariance
Standard Deviation of Two Assets
(based on weighting)
Beta
Required (or Expected) Rate of Return
(Security Market Line - or SML)
Alpha (Jensen)
Treynor Ratio
Change in Price of a Bond
Tax-Equivalent Yield
Sharpe Ratio
D1 Rewrite
g
Dividend Growth Rate
P
Price of Stock
r
Required Rate of Return
cov
Covariance
correlation coefficient (this is the Greek letter “rho”)
standard deviation of a stock (this is the Greek letter “sigma”
next year’s dividend
standard deviation of the portfolio
Beta (risk) of stock “I”
the standard deviation of the market
correlation coefficient between stock “I” and the market
investor’s required return (or expected return)
risk-free rate (could be given as the 3 month T-bill rate)
return of the market
the market premium
the stock premium
alpha of the portfolio (this measures how much value the portfolio manager has added or subtracted in relation to the expected return of the portfolio)
return of the portfolio (i.e the portfolio manager’s return)
Treynor Ratio
the beta (or risk) of portfolio “p”
percentage change in the price of a bond
D
duration of the bond
the change in interest rate
y
yield to maturity (YTM)
Sharpe Ratio