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Assignment Guidelines Choose five companies from three different industries you are willing to invest in 1. Write a summary about each company explaining the reasons for your investment interest 2. Plot the stocks' historical prices over the last three years (daily prices). What do you notice? 3. Calculate the expected return for each stock using the formula below and plot the expected returns. Comment on your observations, E(R) Stock Price + 1 - Stock Price Stock Price 4. Form an equally weighted portfolio using the most recent expected returns of the five chosen companies. What is the expected return on the portfolio? If you used the same strategy to invest last year, how different would your expected return be? 5. Repeat (4) using portfolio weights of your preference. What is the expected return? Explain why you choose these weights? Did it achieve your investment goal? Assignment Guidelines Choose five companies from three different industries you are willing to invest in 1. Write a summary about each company explaining the reasons for your investment interest 2. Plot the stocks' historical prices over the last three years (daily prices). What do you notice? 3. Calculate the expected return for each stock using the formula below and plot the expected returns. Comment on your observations, E(R) Stock Price + 1 - Stock Price Stock Price 4. Form an equally weighted portfolio using the most recent expected returns of the five chosen companies. What is the expected return on the portfolio? If you used the same strategy to invest last year, how different would your expected return be? 5. Repeat (4) using portfolio weights of your preference. What is the expected return? Explain why you choose these weights? Did it achieve your investment goal