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A stock had returns of 10 percent, -4 percent, 4 percent, and 18 percent over the past four years. What is the standard deviation of these returns?
Answer is standard deviation 9.31%
Period | return | (return -Mean)^2 |
1 | 10% | 0.0009 |
2 | -4% | 0.0121 |
3 | 4% | 0.0009 |
4 | 18% | 0.0121 |
Total variance | 0.0087 | |
standard deviation Sqrt of ((Total Varaince)/(4-1)) | 9.31% |
Mean | 7.00% |