Given investment horizon of 30 days, Autobytel Inc. is expected to generate 0.72 times more return on investment than Akamai. However, Autobytel Inc. is 1.39 times less risky than Akamai. It trades about -0.34 of its potential returns per unit of risk. Akamai Technologies Inc. is currently generating about -0.28 per unit of risk. If you would invest 92.00 in Autobytel Inc. on April 24, 2012 and sell it today you would lose (17.00) from holding Autobytel Inc. or give up 18.48% of portfolio value over 30 days.
Diversification
Modest diversification
Overlapping area represents amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Autobytel Inc. and Akamai Technologies Inc. in the same portfolio (assuming nothing else is changed)