Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780077861704
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 12, Problem 14QP
Calculating Returns and Variability [LO1] You find a certain stock that had returns of 9 percent, −16 percent, 21 percent, and 17 percent for four of the last five years. If the average return of the stock over this period was 10.3 percent, what was the stock’s return for the missing year? What is the standard deviation of the stock’s return?
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