Instructions: Please Define the Following Key Terms

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Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
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Definitions:

Dividend

A portion of a company's earnings distributed to its shareholders, usually in the form of cash or additional stock.

Sharpe Measure

A measure for calculating the performance of an investment compared to a risk-free asset, after adjusting for its risk, often used to understand the risk-adjusted return.

Beta

A measure of a stock's volatility in relation to the overall market; a beta greater than 1 indicates higher volatility than the market.

Standard Deviation

In finance, it measures the investment's volatility or risk by determining how much the returns on the investment can deviate from the average return.