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Re: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: CAGR



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Hi Preston,

Thanks for your help. I asked the question because I went to investopedia. So, I thought that it could be applied to MS.
In fact, there's another one better than CAGR which is Risk adjusted CAGR. (It is also mentioned at investopedia.com).

The other thing that  I was very interested in knowing if it is possible to do it for MS is the sortino rate. 

Think that all these tools can help us in order to choose for 1 stock or another.

Thank you again.


pumrysh <no_reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:                               Lopez,
 
 Don't remember this ever having been written before so it will have 
 to be written from scratch.
 
 Let's get started by an explanation first. 
 Maybe we can get some others to jump in and help here as well.
 
 From Investopedia:
 The year-over-year growth rate of an investment over a specified 
 period of time. 
 
 The compound annual growth rate is calculated by taking the nth root 
 of the total percentage growth rate, where n is the number of years 
 in the period being considered.
 
 CAGR isn't the actual return in reality. It's an imaginary number 
 that describes the rate at which an investment would have grown if 
 it grew at a steady rate. You can think of CAGR as a way to smooth 
 out the returns. 
 
 Don't worry if this concept is still fuzzy to you - CAGR is one of 
 those terms best defined by example. Suppose you invested $10,000 in 
 a portfolio on Jan 1, 2005. Let's say by Jan 1, 2006, your portfolio 
 had grown to $13,000, then $14,000 by 2007, and finally ended up at 
 $19,500 by 2008. 
 
 Your CAGR would be the ratio of your ending value to beginning value 
 ($19,500 / $10,000 = 1.95) raised to the power of 1/3 (since 1/# of 
 years = 1/3), then subtracting 1 from the resulting number:
 
 1.95 raised to 1/3 power = 1.2493. (This could be written as 
 1.95^0.3333). 
 1.2493 - 1 = 0.2493
 Another way of writing 0.2493 is 24.93%. 
 
 Thus, your CAGR for your three-year investment is equal to 24.93%, 
 representing the smoothed annualized gain you earned over your 
 investment time horizon.
 
 Preston
 
 --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lopez abduch 
 <lopezabduch@xxx> wrote:
 >
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Does anybody know how can I create a formula for metastock for 
 CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate)?.
 > 
 > Thanks in advance.
 > 
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