Considering 30-days investment horizon, VMware Inc. is expected to under-perform the Salesforce. But the stock apears to be less risky and, when comparing its historical volatility, VMware Inc. is 1.49 times less risky than Salesforce. The stock trades about -0.34 of its potential returns per unit of risk. The Salesforce.com is currently generating about -0.07 of returns per unit of risk over similar time horizon. If you would invest 15,666 in Salesforce.com on April 26, 2012 and sell it today you would lose (966) from holding Salesforce.com or give up 6.17% of portfolio value over 30 days.
Diversification
Very weak diversification
Overlapping area represents amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding VMware Inc. and Salesforce.com in the same portfolio (assuming nothing else is changed)