Assignment $2-$ FIN $3002$

As a financial analyst, you evaluate financial data and extract relevant

information to make investment recommendations. This time, you are

tasked with analyzing NVIDIA based on its historical prices. $(15$ points$)$

a$)$ If a client invested $$10,000$ at the beginning of $2000,$ what is the total

dollar return for that client, measured at the beginning of $2024?$

b$)$ What is the typical $($average$)$ return over the $24$ years?

c$)$ What is the average compound return per year over the $24-$year

period? d$)$ Obtain the variance and standard deviation of returns.

e$)$ If the average risk$-$free rate during this period was $4\mathrm{.}5\%,$ what is Nvidia's

risk premium? How can we interpret this number?