ou have run a regression of monthly stock returns for Gym Place Holdings, a small play-set manufacturing company against the S&P 500 over the last 5 years. The results are summarized below: ReturnsGym Place = 0.0003 + 2.00 Returns S&P 500 R2 = 0.5, the standard error for the beta estimate is 0.5 If you know that this stock had a monthly Jensen’s alpha of 0.005 during the period of the regression. The 10-year U.S. treasury bond rate is 0.039, the German government Euro bond rate is 0.034 and Gym Place can borrow money at 0.06 (in Euros). The risk premium (Equity over risk free rate) over the last 10 years in European markets is only 0.04 but the historical risk premium over the last 75 years in the United States is 0.0453. Using Jensens alpha, What was the monthly risk free rate ? What was the annualized risk free rate during the last 5 years? Estimate a Euro cost of equity for Gym Place Holdings
Correlation
Correlation defines a relationship between two independent variables. It tells the degree to which variables move in relation to each other. When two sets of data are related to each other, there is a correlation between them.
Linear Correlation
A correlation is used to determine the relationships between numerical and categorical variables. In other words, it is an indicator of how things are connected to one another. The correlation analysis is the study of how variables are related.
Regression Analysis
Regression analysis is a statistical method in which it estimates the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variable. In simple terms dependent variable is called as outcome variable and independent variable is called as predictors. Regression analysis is one of the methods to find the trends in data. The independent variable used in Regression analysis is named Predictor variable. It offers data of an associated dependent variable regarding a particular outcome.
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