Manulife Fin Variance

MFC-PJ Preferred Stock  CAD 25.50  0.15  0.59%   
Reference data associated with the Variance technical indicator for Manulife Fin Non. Indicator values reflect available price and volume data where applicable.
Manulife Fin Non has current Variance of 0.146. Variance is another measure of security risk that shows the amount of dispersion of equity returns around their mean value. Variance is calculated as the average squared deviations from the mean. Evaluating a set of investment alternatives one can use variance to help determine the volatility when purchasing a specific security. Similar to Standard Deviation, the variance is a measure of how far a set of numbers is spread out around its mean.

Variance

 = 

SUM(RET DEV)2

N

 = 
0.146
SUM = Summation notation
RET DEV = Actual returns deviation over selected period
N = Number of points for the period

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Variance Relative To Other Indicators

Manulife Fin Non is rated below average in variance among leading competitors. It is currently under evaluation in maximum drawdown among leading competitors reporting about 11.51 of Maximum Drawdown per Variance. At 11.51 , Manulife Fin Non's Maximum Drawdown-to-Variance multiple reflects the spread between these metrics
Variance is also a measure of stock volatility and can help determine the risk an investor might take on when purchasing a specific security. A relatively big variance indicates that the daily prices or returns are far from the mean and a small variance indicates that they are located around the mean. Compare Manulife Fin to Peers

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