In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to use beta to compare stock’s exposure to the systematic risk and use alpha to quantify the investment’s return over the market return.
ATTENTION: To take this course, it is required that you are familiar basic financial risk management concepts. You can gain them by taking the guided project Compare Stock Returns with Google Sheets.
Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We're currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
This course's content is not intended to be investment advice and does not constitute an offer to perform any operations in the regulated or unregulated financial market
Status: Financial Management
Financial Management
Status: Risk Analysis
Risk Analysis
Intermediate·Guided Project·2 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Aug 6, 2020
Very well explained and helpful course in the series of Mr. Ochilov's series of courses in collaboration with the Coursera Project Network.
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 15, 2024
the hands on experience of calculating portfolio returns and investment beta and alpha made me undertstand things well. thank you.
5.0
·Reviewed May 3, 2021
Its quite useful in understanding how returns are calculated
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 30, 2022
Please provide access to the spreadsheet of returns.
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 22, 2020
Project is good, but navigation is complecated, it is very difficult to understand the process flow
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 4, 2021
Thanks Tutor. I'm so happy to be under your tutoring
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Jonathan
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 6, 2020
Very well explained and helpful course in the series of Mr. Ochilov's series of courses in collaboration with the Coursera Project Network.
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abhishek
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 23, 2020
Project is good, but navigation is complecated, it is very difficult to understand the process flow
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Nilyufar
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 29, 2021
Practical and valuable for fresh finance graduates who further wanna take their learning to the next level. By taking this guided project I worked on Excel where I used financial formulas such as Stdev, VAR & COVAR to decipher the beta (systematic risk) and overall risk (systematic and unsystematic) of the single stock and portfolio. Moreover, I have learnt about alpha which shows how one's investment choice performed well compared to the proxy market or an index. To sum it up, it is a useful course for young starters who want to grow and progress in their career.
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Vempati
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 16, 2024
the hands on experience of calculating portfolio returns and investment beta and alpha made me undertstand things well. thank you.
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A.Praveena
5.0
·Reviewed May 4, 2021
Its quite useful in understanding how returns are calculated
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Wa
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 31, 2022
Please provide access to the spreadsheet of returns.
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Cường
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 5, 2021
Thanks Tutor. I'm so happy to be under your tutoring
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Augustine
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 12, 2024
Hands on project and informing
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Rahul
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 18, 2025
awsome to learn
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Madad
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 30, 2021
WELL-DONE!
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Aracatla
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 23, 2020
Very good
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Allu
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 2, 2020
good one
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Raja
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 1, 2020
Great!
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Raj
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 25, 2024
Great
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Gaël
4.0
·Reviewed Dec 23, 2022
Good and very useful course, but I think it would be better to use log returns instead of returns, in statistics computations.
Thanks to the teacher !
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Punith
4.0
·Reviewed Dec 25, 2021
To the Point and covers all the imporant topics, which are required in calucation the portfolio returns.