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Exercise

Adjust univariate data for splits and dividends

If you only have close prices, you can adjust them with adjRatios(). It has 3 arguments: splits, dividends, and close. It returns an xts object with split and dividend adjustment ratios in columns "Split" and "Div", respectively.

You need to provide split data via the splits argument to calculate the split ratio. To calculate the dividend ratio, you need to provide raw dividends and raw prices via the dividends and close arguments, respectively.

Once you have the split and dividend adjustment ratios, you calculate the adjusted price multiplying the unadjusted price by both the split and dividend adjustment ratios.

Your workspace contains splits, dividends, and raw_dividends from prior exercises, and AAPL data from Yahoo Finance.

Instructions
100 XP
  • Use adjRatios() to calculate the split and dividend adjustment ratios. Assign the output to ratios.
  • Calculate the adjusted close for AAPL by extracting the close price and multiplying it by both adjustment ratios and assign it to aapl_adjusted.
  • Look at the first few rows of the adjusted close column provided by Yahoo Finance.
  • Look at the first few rows of the adjusted close price you calculated, and compare that to the adjusted close from Yahoo Finance.