Given investment horizon of 30 days, Oracle Corporation is expected to under-perform the Microsoft. In addition to that, Oracle is 1.39 times more volatile than Microsoft Corporation. It trades about -0.32 of its total potential returns per unit of risk. Microsoft Corporation is currently generating about -0.44 per unit of volatility. If you would invest 3,198 in Microsoft Corporation on April 26, 2012 and sell it today you would lose (292.00) from holding Microsoft Corporation or give up 9.13% of portfolio value over 30 days.
Diversification
Weak diversification
Overlapping area represents amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. in the same portfolio (assuming nothing else is changed)