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Stock analysis British Telecommunications and British Petroleum. Stock prices British Telecommunications and British Petroleum. Dot-com bubble. Return British Telecommunications and excess market return. Return British Petroleum and excess market return.
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Stock analysis British Telecommunications and British Petroleum
Stock prices British Telecommunications and British Petroleum Dot-com bubble
Return British Petroleum and excess market return 01/1997 – 12/1999 (bull market)
Return British Telecommunications and excess market return 6/1999 – 12/2003 (bear market)
Conclusion • Both stocks have a negative skewness, i.e. greater-than-normal probability of big negative returns • Both stocks have a beta close to 1, i.e. neither aggressive nor defensive stocks (but BT more aggressive than BP) • Both regressions have a low R^2, i.e. bad fit of the OLS Regression