Yahoo Finance – Finance Assignment
1)Collect the market price index (All Ordinaries), the Share price for a company and display the data for two sub-periods (Period 1:January 2015 to February 2016; Period 2: January 2016 to February 2017) separately in a table.
2)Calculate the return on share prices and market return (from market price index). Display the calculated returns along with the risk-free rate of return in a table for two sub-periods. Calculate and tabulate,
3)Calculate the mean, standard deviation, variance, coefficient of variation andcorrelation coefficient for and separately and comment on the result.
4)Estimate beta for your selected company for the two sub-periods.
5)Explain the value of beta that you have calculated.
6)Why is the estimated value of beta different for two sub-periods?