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Monthly Returns for a few stocks

Source: R/data-stocks_18.R
stocks_18.Rd

Monthly return data for a few stocks, which covers stock prices from November 2015 through October 2018.

Usage

stocks_18

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 3 variables.

date

First day of the month corresponding to the returns.

goog

Google stock price change.

cat

Caterpillar stock price change.

xom

Exxon Mobil stock price change.

Source

Yahoo! Finance, direct download.

Examples


d <- stocks_18
dim(d)
#> [1] 36  4
apply(d[, 2:3], 2, mean)
#>        cat       goog 
#> 0.02037753 0.01042289 
apply(d[, 2:3], 2, sd)
#>        cat       goog 
#> 0.07571634 0.05409915