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Choose any stock (your choice) from one of the US Stock exchanges and plot the monthly (beginning) prices of this stock for all of 2019, through Oct 1 of 2020. You should 22 data points. Briefly explain whether or not this stock would add credence to, or not, for the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH). This is not a quantitative question, per se, but provide appropriate rationale to support your answer.
The stock chosen for the analysis is EBAY
At first we collect the financial data for the company in order to investigate into the Efficient market hypothesis for EBAY
If EHM theory hold true in case of semi strong or strong markets like US , it states that all the data in the publicly available domain and the recent news will be reflected in the share prices .
Also
The past pprice and the volume information will have no impact on the current share price of the company :
So the data obtained were as follows
EBAY |
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Date |
Price |
Volume |
01-01-2019 |
32.78165 |
343616600 |
01-02-2019 |
36.19133 |
210230900 |
01-03-2019 |
36.31688 |
252316300 |
01-04-2019 |
37.8912 |
211328500 |
01-05-2019 |
35.13369 |
176656800 |
01-06-2019 |
38.77495 |
194738300 |
01-07-2019 |
40.43393 |
176600700 |
01-08-2019 |
39.55045 |
147930100 |
01-09-2019 |
38.39713 |
138279000 |
01-10-2019 |
34.7229 |
161549500 |
01-11-2019 |
34.98887 |
148552500 |
01-12-2019 |
35.7095 |
163581500 |
01-01-2020 |
33.18778 |
199703900 |
01-02-2020 |
34.2558 |
308100100 |
01-03-2020 |
29.86296 |
368561100 |
01-04-2020 |
39.56891 |
284329500 |
01-05-2020 |
45.24149 |
227159400 |
01-06-2020 |
52.29537 |
289890200 |
01-07-2020 |
55.11702 |
228002500 |
01-08-2020 |
54.6185 |
156441200 |
01-09-2020 |
52.1 |
187530200 |
01-10-2020 |
55.83 |
86811600 |
If we calculate the Average Monthly return and Std dev we find that
Current data |
|
Average Monthly return |
40.58956 |
Std dev |
7.910597 |
Where as based on the past data we see these data are
Average Monthly return |
29.07709105 |
Std dev |
7.83870108 |
So we cann see the past price and the volume information is difference from the current one hence not influencing it .
Hence EHM theory holds true for this Semi –strong to Strong US markets as the publicly available information and news can be seen impacting the stock prices of EBAY . So EHM Holds True