A stock's historical variance measures the difference between the stock's returns for different periods and its average return. A stock with a lower variance typically generates returns that are ...

For example, let's say that your company has a 20% share of the market for a certain product, and that when you made your budget, the market for this product was expected to be for 110,000 units.

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The revenue variance for an accounting period is the difference between budgeted and actual revenue. A favorable revenue variance occurs when actual revenues exceed budgeted revenues, while the ...