question archive You’ve observed the following returns on Crash-n-Burn Computer’s stock over the past five years: 8 percent, −15 percent, 19 percent, 31 percent, and 21 percent
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You’ve observed the following returns on Crash-n-Burn Computer’s stock over the past five years: 8 percent, −15 percent, 19 percent, 31 percent, and 21 percent.
a. What was the arithmetic average return on the company's stock over this five-year period?
b-1. What was the variance of the company's returns over this period?
b-2. What was the standard deviation of the company's returns over this period?
Answer:
Arithmetic Return = (8% - 15% + 19% + 31% + 21%)/ 5
Arithmetic Return = 12.80%
Variance = ((8% - 12.80%)2 + (-15% - 12.80%)2 + (19% - 12.80%)2 + (31% - 12.80%)2 + (21% - 12.80%)2)/ 4
Variance = 0.03082
SD = Variance0.5
SD = 0.030820.5
SD = 17.56%