Ten annual returns are listed in the following table. 1 -19.9% 2 % 3 4 16.7% 19% -50% % to 5 6 (a) What is the average annual return over the ten-year period (as a percent)? % 7 % 43.2% 1.3% -16.4% 8 9 -45.5% 45.1% (b) What is the standard deviation of annual returns over the ten-year period (as a percent)? (Round your answer to two decimal places.) 10 -4% (c) What is the 95% confidence interval on the return of this stock next year (as a percent) if the past average returns and volatility of returns are unbiased estimators of expected returns and future volatility. (Round your answers to two decimal places.)

Ten annual returns are listed in the following table. 1 -19.9% 2 % 3 4 16.7% 19% -50% % to 5 6 (a) What is the average annual return over the ten-year period (as a percent)? % 7 % 43.2% 1.3% -16.4% 8 9 -45.5% 45.1% (b) What is the standard deviation of annual returns over the ten-year period (as a percent)? (Round your answer to two decimal places.) 10 -4% (c) What is the 95% confidence interval on the return of this stock next year (as a percent) if the past average returns and volatility of returns are unbiased estimators of expected returns and future volatility. (Round your answers to two decimal places.)

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Ten annual returns are listed in the following table: - 19.1% 16.8% 18.3% - 49.8% Click on the following icon to copy the data into a 43.3% spreadsheet.() 1.2% a. The arithmetic average return over the 10-year period is - 16.2% a. What is the arithmetic average return over the 10-year period? b. What is the geometric average return over the 10-year period? c. If you invested $100 at the beginning, how much would you have at the end? 45.7% (Round to four decimal places.) 44.7% 3.9%
Assume that the expected rates of inflation over the next 5 years are 9 percent, 7 percent, 10 percent, 8 percent, and 6 percent, respectively. What is the average expected inflation rate over this 5-year period? Group of answer choices 9% 7% %5 8%
Compute the annual tracking error from the following information: Quarter Portfolio B's 1 2 3 4 O 1.06% O 2.12% O 3.67% O 4.25% O None Portfolio A's Return (%) 1.15 1.89 1.15 -0.47 Return (%) 1.65 -0.10 0.52 -0.60
20) Calculate the geometric average for the following returns: Year 2017 2018 2019 2020 Return 12.03% -8.24% 1.34% 4.55% Group of answer choices 2.2% 2.4% 3.1% 3.4%
Given the following historical returns, calculate the average return and the standard deviation: Year Return 1 14% 2 10% 3 15% 4 11%
6. The last four years of returns for a stock are as follows: Year Return 2 28.5% 1 - 4.2% a. What is the average annual return? b. What is the variance of the stock's returns? c. What is the standard deviation of the stock's returns? a. What is the average annual return? The average return is b. What is the variance of the stock's returns? The variance of the returns is 3 12.3% The standard deviation is %. (Round to two decimal places.) 3.6% c. What is the standard deviation of the stock's returns? (Round to five decimal places.) %. (Round to two decimal places.)
A security produced returns of 18 percent, 13 percent, -3 percent, 5 percent, and 8 percent over the past five years. Based on just these five years, what is the probability that this stock will lose more than 7.76 percent in any one given year? Select one: a. A. 0.5 percent b. B. 1.0 percent c. C. 2.5 percent d. E. 16.0 percent e. D. 5.0 percent
Calculate the standard deviation for the following returns: Year 2017 2018 2019 2020 Return 12.03% -8.24% 1.34% 4.55% Group of answer choices 8.4% 8.1% 7.6% 7.3%
The S&P 500 index delivered a return of 25%, – 5%, 25%, and 5% over four successive years. What is the arithmetic average annual return per year? ..... А. 15% В. 12.5% О С. 13.75% D. 18.75%
Consider the following table for a seven-year period: Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 U.S. Treasury Bills 3.45% 3.30 4.20 4.62 2.42 1.30 1.03 Returns Average real return Inflation -1.15% -2.29 -1.19 0.61 -6.43 -9.35 -1.30 What was the average real return for Treasury bills for this time period? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16. %
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Please answer Question 8 & 9 8.On March 24, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened at $18,591.93 and closed at $20,704.91. What was the daily return that day, and what was the effective annual rate return (in percent) of the stock market that day?Daily Return: __________% EAR:_________ % 9. Financial analysts forecast GDY Inc.’s growth for the future to be 8%. GDY's recent annual dividend was $6.00. What is the value of GDY stock when the required return is 11%?Stock Value: $___________________

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