The Business Side of Standard Deviation
You are a financial analyst for a Fortune 500 company and you must present an analysis of the financial data to the executives.
Select a publicly traded company in the same industry as the company you work for or one that you would like to work.
The company selected is Aetna. I provided a link you can copy and paste to get the information needed.
Write 250 words.
https://beta.fortune.com/fortune500/aetna-46
Locate the company's annual report and any other available data (e.g. units manufactured, revenue, etc.) that is available for the last 5 years. Also provide a chartf
Use one of the company's historical data sets to calculate the standard deviation of the selected data for the last 5 years.
Discuss what the standard deviation means.