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Young Corp. | Mature Corp. | ||
Share price | Share price | Dividend per share | |
31-Dec-05 | 32.56 | 78.50 | 0.00 |
31-Dec-06 | 34.50 | 82.50 | 0.00 |
31-Dec-07 | 38.98 | 84.50 | 1.00 |
31-Dec-08 | 44.50 | 81.60 | 0.00 |
31-Dec-09 | 40.20 | 79.60 | 1.50 |
31-Dec-10 | 39.50 | 80.96 | 1.50 |
31-Dec-11 | 38.45 | 82.65 | 0.00 |
31-Dec-12 | 37.50 | 83.69 | 2.00 |
31-Dec-13 | 43.58 | 82.79 | 2.00 |
31-Dec-14 | 50.30 | 81.97 | 0.00 |
Part A. Compute returns for both companies | |||
Young Corp. | Mature Corp. | ||
31-Dec-06 | |||
31-Dec-07 | |||
31-Dec-08 | |||
31-Dec-09 | |||
31-Dec-10 | |||
31-Dec-11 | |||
31-Dec-12 | |||
31-Dec-13 | |||
31-Dec-14 | |||
Part B. Calculate the following statistics | |||
Average return | |||
Variance | |||
Sigma | |||
Covariance | |||
Correlation | |||
Part C. Interpret the economic meaning of correlation | |||