The Variance of Stock Returns is a measure of the volatility or the dispersion of returns around the mean return. It is calculated as the average squared deviation from the mean.
Some other related topics you might be interested to explore are Standard Deviation of Stock Return and Mean Return.
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Variance of Stock Returns is among the topics included in the Portfolio Management module of the CFA Level 1 Curriculum.
