What is the correlation coefficient between Stock A and B?

What is the correlation coefficient between Stock A and B?

The correlation coefficient between stock B and the market portfolio is 0.8. The standard deviation of the stock B is 35% and that of the market is 20%.

Can you use correlation to predict?

A correlation analysis provides information on the strength and direction of the linear relationship between two variables, while a simple linear regression analysis estimates parameters in a linear equation that can be used to predict values of one variable based on the other.

What does a correlation of 0.5 mean?

Correlation coefficients whose magnitude are between 0.5 and 0.7 indicate variables which can be considered moderately correlated. Correlation coefficients whose magnitude are between 0.3 and 0.5 indicate variables which have a low correlation.

What is the correlation coefficient in Excel regression?

The correlation coefficient (a value between -1 and +1) tells you how strongly two variables are related to each other. We can use the CORREL function or the Analysis Toolpak add-in in Excel to find the correlation coefficient between two variables.