Semiconductor: Nvidia Corporation

Oil and Gas: ExxonMobil

Using Yahoo Finance, obtain market index and stock price data for your clients portfolio companies to estimate their equity betas.

Use an ordinary least squares regression under the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).

i) Explain and justify your methodology, including: how key variables are measured, time horizon, measurement intervals, market index, and risk-free rate.

ii) Estimate annualised expected return of each stock using CAPM model and the annualised standard deviation of each stock using information or data from the above step.