Given investment horizon of 30 days, Hooker Furniture Corporation is expected to generate 1.68 times more return on investment than IberiaBank. However, Hooker is 1.68 times more volatile than IberiaBank Corporation. It trades about -0.03 of its potential returns per unit of risk. IberiaBank Corporation is currently generating about -0.28 per unit of risk. If you would invest 1,185 in Hooker Furniture Corporation on April 26, 2012 and sell it today you would lose (11.00) from holding Hooker Furniture Corporation or give up 0.93% of portfolio value over 30 days.
Diversification
Modest diversification
Overlapping area represents amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Hooker Furniture Corp. and IberiaBank Corp. in the same portfolio (assuming nothing else is changed)