• MURARISHETTY SAKETH
• Dr. Sindhu

Return and risk are inherent in any investment. Investor should carefully scrutinize the available investment avenues to effectively utilize the funds to yield maximum returns on the investible funds. In order to attain this, it is prominent for the investor to evaluate the attributes of risk and return of the investment avenues. There are abundant avenues to invest to gain returns. From government issued treasury bills, fixed income securities like bonds, debentures issued by private firms, commercial bills, equity and preference shares issued by private firms which has different attributes and risks associated with them. Each one of the avenues yield returns which vary from one to other. Like, equity has variable returns and risks which are very high when compared to other investment avenues like bonds or treasury bills. This study is to evaluate return and risk of the selected stocks in comparison with the market and Industrial average. There is a robust growth of IT sector in Indian economy hence it’s a golden egg for every investor to earn returns by investing in equities of respective firms. This study is conducted to examine the risk and return of those firms over the last five years. For the study four Information Technology companies which were being listed in National Stock Exchange are selected and their price movements, risk, return, volatility is analyzed for the period of five years i.e. from January 2014 to December 2018 using various statistical tools like co-relation, regression, variance and standard deviation

Risk, Return, Volatility, Correlation

"STUDY ON RISK AND RETURN OF THE SELECTED COMPANIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no.464-468, April-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2104158.pdf

"STUDY ON RISK AND RETURN OF THE SELECTED COMPANIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no. pp464-468, April-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2104158.pdf