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For four years, you have owned stock in XYZ corp. You bought it in August 2015. The price you paid was $20.00 per share. The first year it paid you a dividend of $0.67; the next year, $0.75; the next, $1.00 and then the final year, $1.25. The price for the stock in August of 2016 was $28.00, in August 2017 $24.00, August 2018 $22.00, and finally today it is selling for $31.00. Date Close Dividends Return?? Price Aug 2015 $20.00 Aug 2016 $28.00 $0.67 Aug 2017 $24.00 $0.75 Aug 2018 $22.00 $1.00 Aug 2019$31.00 $1.25 Use the data above for the first four questions. 1. What is the return for the stock over the last year, Aug 2019? Question 2 2 pts What is the arithmetic average return for your stock over the four years? Question 3 3 pts What is geometric average return for your stock over the four years? Question 4 2 pts What is the standard deviation of the returns? You should use the STDEV.S function in Excel. Question 8 3 pts You own 100 shares of a $10 stock (ABC corp), 200 shares of a $20 stock (DEF corp), and 300 shares of a $30 stock (GHI corp). If you expect returns for each respective stock to be 20% for ABC, 15% for DEF and 10% for GHI, what is the expected return for your portfolio? Again, make sure you go out four decimals; 0.0000

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