Question

• 1. Go to the Yahoo! Finance website and find the daily share prices (adjusted price) of British Petroleum (BP) for the period of 6 months (from 01-Jan to 30-Jun 2020).
• Provide the graph of share price.
• What is the total return of the company over the last 6 months period?
• How to do you interrupt the share price trend and holding period return?

Hint: use this formula: R=(P30_Jun-P01_Jan)P01_Jan

Answer 1

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2-	Total return of the company	(adjusted closing price at June 30,2020 - adjuted closing price at Jan 1, 2020)/Adjusted closing price at Jan 1 2020	(23.48-36.51)/36.51	-35.69%
3-	The trend analysis of the adjusted closing price showed a declining trend till the month of march 2020 and onwards it showed a recovery trend over the period and april onwards showed more or less constant movement in the stock price of the company. In the last six months return of stock showed an negative return of 35.69%