Discuss what the standard deviation means

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The Business Side of Standard Deviation

You are a financial analyst for a Fortune 500 company and you must present an analysis of the financial data to the executives.

Select a publicly traded company in the same industry as the company you work for or one that you would like to work.

The company selected is Aetna. I provided a link you can copy and paste to get the information needed.

Write 250 words.

https://beta.fortune.com/fortune500/aetna-46

Locate the company's annual report and any other available data (e.g. units manufactured, revenue, etc.) that is available for the last 5 years. Also provide a chartf

Use one of the company's historical data sets to calculate the standard deviation of the selected data for the last 5 years.

Discuss what the standard deviation means.

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