A stock has yielded returns of 6 percent, 11 percent, 14 percent, and -2 percent over the past four years, respectively. What is the standard deviation of these returns?   Group of answer choices 5.52 percent 5.86 percent 6.05 percent 6.47 percent 6.99 percent

An analyst gathered daily stock returns for Feburary 1 through March 31, calculated the Fama-French factors for each day in the sample (SMBt and HMLt), and estimated the Fama-French regression model shown in Equation 6-21. The estimated coefficients were ai = 0, bi = 1.2, ci = 0.4, and di = 1.3. On April 1, the market return was 10%, the return on the SMB portfolio (rSMB) was 3.2%, and the return on the HML portfolio (rHML) was 4.8%. Using the estimated model, what was the stocks predicted return for April 1?

Over the past 5 years, a stock produced returns of 23 percent, -39 percent, 4 percent, and 16 percent, and -12 percent. Based on these 5 years, which of the following is true?    Group of answer choices   Average return is higher than standard deviation. Average return is equal to standard deviation. Average return is lower than standard deviation. Both average return and standard deviation are positive. Both average return and standard deviation are negative.

A stock has had returns of −19 percent, 29 percent, 24 percent, −10.1 percent, 34.8 percent, and 27 percent over the last six years. What is the geometric return for the stock?