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Mean historical return and volatility for a 25 blue chips for long-term and short-term time intervals.

As all of you know, the historical expected return and volatility of stock is a very important characteristics of the stock stability and profitability. Here is the comparison of these values for 25 blue chips for two historical data intervals, 11 years and 1 month. 11 years interval shows long-term
stock price tendencies, and 1 month interval exhibits stock price tendency in the near past.

This is a table for 25 blue chips and their expected return and volatility for 11 years of the data from 2013-01-02 to 2024-05-17.



symbol
expected return
volatility

AAPL
0.221
0.282

ABBV
0.147
0.265

AXP
0.133
0.293

CAT
0.125
0.283

CVX
0.035
0.282

GS
0.118
0.274

HD
0.16
0.235

HON
0.112
0.219

INTC
0.036
0.32

JNJ
0.071
0.175

JPM
0.143
0.261

KO
0.047
0.176

KR
0.132
0.274

LMT
0.152
0.216

MA
0.214
0.263

MCD
0.102
0.194

MRK
0.112
0.209

MSFT
0.271
0.267

NKE
0.118
0.279

NOC
0.185
0.235

ORCL
0.118
0.261

PG
0.081
0.18

SBUX
0.096
0.258

UNH
0.22
0.25

WMT
0.095
0.201



As you can see, the leader of the table is the Apple stocks with their 0.221 yearly expected return
and 0.282 volatility.



The next table is the same one, but for the last month of the data, from 2024-04-17 to 2024-05-17.


symbol
expected return
volatility
AAPL
3.062
0.258
ABBV
0.162
0.21
AXP
2.499
0.268
CAT
-0.064
0.346
CVX
0.569
0.172
GS
4.366
0.165
HD
0.47
0.191
HON
1.466
0.121
INTC
-0.73
0.39
JNJ
1.129
0.192
JPM
3.362
0.137
KO
1.345
0.096
KR
-0.199
0.159
LMT
0.287
0.11
MA
0.003
0.134
MCD
0.108
0.139
MRK
0.682
0.166
MSFT
0.259
0.229
NKE
-0.278
0.193
NOC
0.571
0.19
ORCL
0.579
0.217
PG
1.126
0.084
SBUX
-0.689
0.583
UNH
1.836
0.177
WMT
1.514
0.271



As you can see, the leader of the table for one month is still the Apple stocks with their prominent 3.062 yearly expected return and 0.258 volatility. It means that the AAPL stock prices for the last month raised quite steadily.

And finally, here is the performance of the portfolio consisted of these blue chips.
Optimization were performed by maximization of the Sharpe ratio, for 11 years of historical data.


expected return of the portfolio
0.223
volatility
0.184
Sharpe ratio
1.076

All the calculations were made with the help of the website for portfolio optimization
https://asset-master.net/
The recommended browser is Firefox.

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