While We Are Using Historic Return to Estimate a Stock's

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Essay

While we are using historic return to estimate a stock's beta, why can't we use historic data to forecast the expected return for the stock?

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Definitions:

Egocentric Thinking

A cognitive perspective where an individual has difficulty understanding or acknowledging viewpoints other than their own.

Sensorimotor Stage

The first of Piaget's stages of cognitive development, where infants from birth to approximately two years old learn about the world through their senses and actions.

Operations

Flexible, reversible mental manipulations of objects, in which objects can be mentally transformed and then returned to their original states.

Precausal Thinking

A type of reasoning typical in early childhood where logic is not yet developed, leading to conclusions that don't follow logically from their premises.