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The recent price history for a nondividend-paying stock is provided below. The risk-free rate is 3%.
a. Estimate the stock’s Sharpe ratio.
Month |
Price |
1 |
50 |
2 |
47 |
3 |
53 |
4 |
56 |
5 |
60 |
6 |
59 |
Using the data above, it is easy to find the Standard deviation and Avg return on the stock.
The avg is 0.1790/6 = 0.029838. The Standard deviation of the data is 0.068028. Hence the Sharpe Ratio is = (0.029838 - 0.03) / 0.06802 The sharpe Ratio is -0.00239 |
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