Writing Homework Help

For companies company A (Robert Walters) and company B (NCCgroup), you can collect the data such as stock prices from various vendor:
for example, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, or Datastream. For the financial statements or other
information about the companies, it is also advised to check the company’s webpage.

1. Provide brief descriptions of Company A and of Company B
2. Next, compare and contrast the stock return performance of the two companies’
   common stocks over the calendar period using monthly return data from January 2016
   to December 2020. Specifically, calculate the mean, variance and standard deviation
   of the monthly returns of the two stocks separately.
3. Briefly comment on your results and make a stock recommendation.
4. To complete the assignment, you will need to collect various sorts of data which can be downloaded
   from different sources (e.g., Yahoo Finance, the website of the company, Datastream).