A stock's historical variance measures the difference between the stock's returns for different periods and its average return. A stock with a lower variance typically generates returns that are ...

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Knowing an average is not enough to properly describe a data set. You also need a measure of how dispersed the data is. Values that are packed closely together display greater consistency than those ...