Comparing distributions of stock returns
Let's have a look at how you can use skewness and kurtosis in your investment decisions. In this exercise you're going to compare the distributions of singular stocks with the portfolio, and see whether combining multiple stocks in a portfolio improves your returns distribution.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to Portfolio Analysis in Python
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Print the histograms of the stocks in the portfolio
stock_returns.hist()
# Print skewness and kurtosis of the stocks
print ("skew : ", stock_returns.____())
print ("kurt : ", stock_returns.____())