1 Import stock prices of your choice

2 Convert prices to returns by quarterly

## # A tibble: 600 × 3
##    asset date       returns
##    <chr> <date>       <dbl>
##  1 NKE   2010-01-29 -0.0248
##  2 NKE   2010-02-26  0.0586
##  3 NKE   2010-03-31  0.0877
##  4 NKE   2010-04-30  0.0323
##  5 NKE   2010-05-28 -0.0476
##  6 NKE   2010-06-30 -0.0654
##  7 NKE   2010-07-30  0.0863
##  8 NKE   2010-08-31 -0.0507
##  9 NKE   2010-09-30  0.139 
## 10 NKE   2010-10-29  0.0161
## # ℹ 590 more rows

3 Make plot

4 Interpret the plot

which stock will make more money, which has higher monthly return

## # A tibble: 5 × 2
##   asset average_monthly_return
##   <chr>                  <dbl>
## 1 NKE                  0.0163 
## 2 LOW                  0.0152 
## 3 MCD                  0.0120 
## 4 TGT                  0.0104 
## 5 WMT                  0.00861

NKE has the highest monthly return from 2010-2020 on a typical month at 1.63%