The rates of return on Cherry Jalopies, Inc., stock over the last five years were 22 percent, 11 percent, −4 percent, 6 percent, and 9 percent. Over the same period, the returns on Straw Construction Company's stock were 16 percent, 23 percent, −1 percent, 1 percent, and 17 percent. Calculate the variances and the standard deviations for Cherry and Straw

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.