The larger the standard deviation, the greater the likelihood (and risk) that a security's performance will fluctuate
from the average return.
In other words, it is the deviation
from the average return.
In short, it's a measurement of volatility or risk, the degree to which an investment would have deviated
from its average return over a given timeframe.
Throw in the depreciation and it goes
from an average return to a great one.
The risk of an investment is quantified by the degree to which the returns of the investment deviate
from the average return during specific periods of time.
Not exact matches
From that sample, we seek out companies that have
return on equity of at least 12 % and a beta above 1, indicating that a company is less volatile than the market
average.
A strategy that involves buying call options — contracts betting a stock will rise — around a company's analyst day has
returned an
average of 21 % since 2004, according to data
from Goldman, which looked at more than 7,000 instances.
Private equity
returns remained strong but were lower than the prior year quarter, while income
from our fixed income investment portfolio increased due to a higher
average level of fixed maturity investments and higher short - term interest rates.
Aside borrowers, investors benefit
from regular monthly
returns at an
average rate of 15.5 per cent, which is significantly higher than other asset classes.
Return on
average common equity (ROE), a measure of how well the bank uses shareholder money to generate profit, was 6.4 % in the quarter, down
from 14.7 % a year earlier.
From 1987 to 2009, the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries Timberland Index has generated an
average annual
return of 14 % compared to 9.4 % for the S&P 500.
The 10 percent
average return on the S&P 500 may not seem impressive at first, despite the fact that it's more than double what one can expect
from a 30 - year Treasury bond and way more than what a certificate of deposit
from a bank pays.
«The
average IPO so far this year has been priced below the midpoint of the range and the
returns have been positive both
from the IPO and also for post-IPO investors,» she said.
Research
from the Kauffman Foundation Angel
Returns Study and the Nesta Angel Investing study, compiled by Robert Wiltbank, have demonstrated that the
average angel investor produced a gross multiple of 2.5 times their investment, in a mean time of about four years.
Our 2013 year - end target of 1600 implies a 10 % price
return, where most of the appreciation can be attributed to earnings growth of 7 % next year, along with modest multiple expansion
from 14.2 x to 14.7 x on trailing earnings, still below an
average PE of 16x.
Feb 7 - U.S. stocks overturned early losses to trade higher on Wednesday as some buyers
returned to a market still shaking
from a record fall for the Dow Jones Industrial
Average earlier this week.
It boasts a five - year
average return of 13.2 % and has been rebounding smartly
from February lows.
While he thinks Starbucks» EPS growth could slow
from the 30 % it has
averaged for the past five years, he still expects earnings to more than double by 2021, «enough conservatively estimated to get us to a strong double - digit
return.»
«At 17x earnings, the
average forward 12 - month
return is 13 %, ranging
from 0 % to 31 %.
In fact, over the past 35 years, the market has experienced an
average drop of 14 %
from high to low during each calendar year, but still had a positive annual
return more than 80 % of the time.
footnote * All
average return data covers the period
from 1926 − 2015.
Using factor data
from Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), for the 10 years
from 2007 through 2017, the value premium (the annual
average difference in
returns between value stocks and growth stocks) was -2.3 %.
According to one study I read
from research giant Morningstar, during a period when the stock market
returned 9 % compounded annually, the
average stock investor earned only 3 %.
Morgan Stanley's Tier 1 capital ratio, under Basel I, was approximately 15.1 % and Tier 1 common ratio was approximately 13.1 % at September 30, 2011.6, 10 The annualized
return on
average common equity
from continuing operations was 14.5 % in the current quarter.
One study, analyzing data
from 1904 to 1974, concluded that the
average return for stocks during the month of January was five times greater than any other month during the year, particularly noting this trend existed in small - capitalization stocks.
If you've ever had occasion to look into the academic research comparing different types of
returns from stocks that have different characteristics, as a class, dividend stocks tend to do better than the
average stock over long periods of time.
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return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The
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In
return, South Korea agreed to adhere to a quota of 2.68 million tons of steel exports to the United States a year, which it said was roughly equivalent to 70 percent of its annual
average sent to the United States
from 2015 to 2017.
The after - tax proceeds
from those sources would be worth $ 547 million if he invested the money in a blend of stocks, bonds, hedge funds, commodities and cash, assuming a weighted
average annual
return of 7 percent over the past 15 years, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The
average annual
return for each portfolio
from 1926 through 2015, including reinvested dividends and other earnings, is noted, as are the best and worst one - year and 15 year
returns.
To expect normal or above -
average long - term
returns from current prices is to rely on the market bailing out the rich overvaluation of today with extreme bubble valuations down the road.
In this example, the «inflation portfolio» improved the
average real
returns of both the conservatively positioned income - oriented retiree's and the young worker's portfolios by 0.7 percentage points per year during the extremely inflationary period
from 1965 to 1980.
From 1926 through 2016, stocks
returned an
average 10 % annually, versus 5.4 % for bonds and 3.5 % for short - term investments.
Over the period
from 1926 through 2013, the
average annual
return on stocks was 10.2 percent.
The fund's overall Morningstar Rating measures risk - adjusted
returns and is derived
from a weighted
average of the performance figures associated with its 3 -, 5 - and 10 - year (if applicable) rating metrics.
While a shortage of workers is pushing wages higher in the skilled trades, the financial
return from a bachelor's degree is softening, even as the price — and the
average debt into which it plunges students — keeps going up.
I heard that on
average returns from certain periods are like 10 % (or less) on
average.
According to Standard and Poor's, since 1928, out of the 10 percent of the
average annual
return the S&P has delivered, 44 percent came
from dividends.
Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report
from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on
average, to 1 percentage point lower annual
returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.
Bloomberg says his flagship $ 35.8 billion DoubleLine Total
Return Bond Fund (DBLTX) gained an annual
average of 13.2 %
from its inception in April 2010 through Nov. 28 of this year.
-LSB-...] table below is
from Ben Carlson's A Wealth of Common Sense and it is a summary of the subsequent
average, median, high, and low 10 - year
returns for the -LSB-...]
To measure our success in these areas, we track meaningful metrics such as employee engagement and satisfaction (i.e., employee volunteering, employee giving and results of the Organizational Health Index survey), total employees receiving performance reviews,
average hours of training, turnover rates and rate of
return from leave.
«While the
average forward
returns following the «triple play» of 52 - week highs are indeed higher than the
average forward
returns for all periods, they're only slightly higher,» said the report
from Bespoke Investment Group.
The following chart, constructed
from data in the paper, summarizes
average (equally weighted) monthly
returns for groups of hedge funds formed each month based on exclusive coverage by each of the three media types the prior month.
If five years
from now the yield simply
returned to its level of a decade ago (and just in case you think I'm cherry picking, over the past 25 years it has
averaged a 7.5 % yield and at the low in 1981 was twice that), bond investors would suffer a meaningful loss of capital.
Specifically, they calculate the
average Pearson correlation of daily returns among all 30 stocks comprising the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) over a specified interval (ranging from 10 to 60 trading days), accounting for occasional index rev
average Pearson correlation of daily
returns among all 30 stocks comprising the Dow Jones Industrial
Average (DJIA) over a specified interval (ranging from 10 to 60 trading days), accounting for occasional index rev
Average (DJIA) over a specified interval (ranging
from 10 to 60 trading days), accounting for occasional index revisions.
While the
average return for the S&P 500 has been c10 % pa, the typical yearly
return is far
from that.
This analysis strongly confirms the downward trend of the
average ten - year forward real
returns from the cheapest grouping (PEs of less than six) to the most expensive grouping (PEs of more than 21).
Too many of us stand back
from that, we invest in ETFs without wanting to engage, and we chase
average returns because we commit
average effort.
The following chart, constructed
from data in the paper, summarizes
average equity
return (ERP plus risk - free rate) estimates in local currencies for the 59 countries with more than five responses
from finance / economic professors, analysts and company managers.