In: Finance
Pick 6 stocks, download monthly returns on yahoo finance, calculate the standard deviation for each of them and then create a histogram in excel
The data regarding the following stocks are collected .
From the adjusted close price , we need to calculate the monthly returns as
Monthly return = ( End price / begin price ) -1
The returns are as following
Now in order to draw a histogram the data range of the return is selected and we proceed to
Data Tab – Data Analysis – Histogram
The Histogram of the stock return is plotted as follows
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