A financial modeling tutorial on calculating stock returns monthly from sources such as Yahoo Finance including stock prices, stock splits and corporate actions like special dividends in Quant 101.
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01:55 Step 1 - Our Sample Data Set
03:57 Step 2 - Which Return Calculation is Appropriate?
05:06 Step 3 - The Daily Process
11:35 Step 4 - Pricing Sources
15:06 The Math
15:44 Exercise 1 Daily Prices
18:05 Exercise 2 Regular Dividends
19:52 Exercise 3 Special Dividends
20:52 Exercise 4 Splits
22:33 Summary
23:06 Step 5 - Next: Return Distributions
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