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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Linear Regression of Monthly Returns of Sealed Air Corp and the Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF

Sealed Air Corporation is a global provider of packaging solutions to various industries. The company provides various packaging products to pack red meat, medical and life science products, cheese, electronics, and other products.  

Exhibit: Sealed Air Corporation Revenue by Region and Product Type

Exhibit: Sealed Air Corporation Packaging Products Revenue by Region and Product Type
(Source: Sealed Air Q2 FY 2022 Investor Presentation on August 2,2022)

Sealed Air has very high volatility. This high volatility may be due to heavy dependency on consumer spending. If consumer spending is weak, they may buy less packaged red meat or packaged cheese, resulting in reduced revenue for the company.  

Here is the graph of monthly returns of Sealed Air (SEE) plotted against Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF (VOO):
Exhibit 1: Monthly Returns of Sealed Air Corp. and Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF [June 2019 -  August 2022]
Monthly Returns of Sealed Air Corp. and Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF [June 2019 -  August 2022]
Monthly Returns of Sealed Air Corp. and Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF [June 2019 -  August 2022]
(Source: RStudio, ggplot, Data Provided by IEX Cloud)


Results of the linear regression of monthly returns of Sealed Air Corporation against Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF:

> lmSEEVOO = lm(SEE_Monthly_Return~VOO_Monthly_Return, data = VOOandSEE)
> summary(lmSEEVOO)

Call:
lm(formula = SEE_Monthly_Return ~ VOO_Monthly_Return, data = VOOandSEE)

Residuals:
     Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max 
-0.13572 -0.03866  0.01319  0.03375  0.14587 

Coefficients:
                    Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)        -0.002498   0.009056  -0.276    0.784    
VOO_Monthly_Return  1.144479   0.163536   6.998 2.85e-08 ***
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 0.05547 on 37 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.5696, Adjusted R-squared:  0.558 
F-statistic: 48.98 on 1 and 37 DF,  p-value: 2.849e-08

Sealed Air Corporation has a higher volatility than the S&P 500 Index, with a Beta of 1.144. The company's monthly returns positively correlate with the Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF. The correlation is 0.75.  
The linear regression yields an adjusted R-squared of 0.55, indicating that about 55% of Sealed Air's monthly returns can be explained by the monthly returns of the S&P 500 Index. 
Sealed Air stock may be risky due to its high volatility compared to the market. But, if the stocks are bought at a reasonable or low valuation, they may yield returns that exceed the market's return.   

     


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