Returns Relationship between Selected IT Stocks and the S&P 500

C. Murugesan, Dr. R. Perumalsamy

Abstract: As the capital markets progress and magnify, more and more data is being formed daily. This explosion of data has made the flow of information much more efficient. As market participants act on this information flow, it drives market returns to more efficient values. Predicting daily behavior of stock market is a serious challenge for investors and corporate stockholders and it can help them to invest with more confident by taking risks and fluctuations into consideration. This paper seeks to examine a number of different forecasting techniques to predict future stock returns based on the past returns, by applying regression for predicting returns behavior. In this study top five American Information Technology companies stocks were taken, the result of the techniques which are discussed in this study helps investor to forecast the returns of securities and they can make investment decisions consequently

Keywords: Securities, Returns, Past Price, Prediction Return, Chart, Return Behavior