Building a handrail for your deck may seem like a simple task. In many cases it is -- until the time arrives to figure out how to get the balusters or spindles evenly spaced along the handrail. Evenly spaced spindles improve the symmetry of the rails and lend a professional look to the project. But finding the right measuring formula may give the average home handyman pause.
R-squared is a statistical measurement that determines the proportion of a security's return, or the return on a specific portfolio of securities, that can be explained by variations in the stock market, as measured by a benchmark index.
R-Squared Measures How Performance Matches a Benchmark. R-squared is a measure of the percentage of an asset or fund's performance as a result of a benchmark. It is reported as a number between 0 and 100. A hypothetical mutual fund with an R-squared of 0 has no correlation to its benchmark at all. A mutual fund with an R-squared of 100 matches the performance of its benchmark precisely.